Running High Part 2

I run high on alcohol.

Here we are again wrote:

I remember a while back reading a long, long thread about running high on weed.

Here is one of the practice's most staunch supporters...and he ain't so high no more.

https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a21240686/how-marijuana-affects-running/

Interesting stuff.

Discus.

I have an odd relationship with this topic. Regular user for a decade, and if I really look back on when running really took off for me, it was those hazy night runs that changed it all for me. Few rips or pulls from my piece, nice 20 minute warm up and letting it all settle in, go off and run 3-5 miles. I absolutely loved it. From those adventures, I started getting more creative with my runs, trails, exploring new routes, at that time, for me oddly it was a PED. I stopped getting buzzed before my runs and found that the runners high for me was more clean and euphoric post run too and not just in the moment. I tried lighting up one Saturday morning a few years later, only a 30-35 minute run, and I had the worst come down. I felt dizzy for the next couple hours and just out of it. I keep lighting up for post run now or lower HR activities like hiking, stretching or doing some yard work.

From the article:

New York Times running journalist Jen A. Miller actually advises against running to music, citing her experience jogging to the Hamilton soundtrack as "too much motivation."

"I kept changing my pace to match the music. 'Yes you are Alexander Hamilton!' I thought and shot out to a too-fast first mile," she writes. "By the end of the first act, I was completely entranced. The intense 'Non-Stop' came on at the midway point of the race. After the line 'How do you write like you need it to survive?' I yelled 'I don't know!' and startled the woman running next to me. At the end of the song, I pounded down a bridge in time with the music when, for the sake of my quads in the rest of the race, I should have taken it easy."

lolol

More from the article:

When a girlfriend of three years dumped me and moved to Chicago, I found myself running long past exhaustion every night. I’d be dehydrated and malnourished in 100 degree heat, rounding my tenth mile as I cried behind dark sunglasses—egged on by the breakup songs of Rilo Kiley, Belle & Sebastian, and Wilco. If Denver parks had a bartender, I would’ve been 86’d as an unruly customer.

This is the funniest thing I've read in awhile. Highly recommend actually reading this one.

OP, I read the article you linked to and this line really stood out to me "It was the sensation of being chased, immediately followed by the relief of escape. Over and over."

I read it two times, being that it so perfectly described the feeling of running stoned at a decent pace. It's an exhilarating sensation that almost feels like you are being forced to surge, and given a shot of energy to do so. It's a fight-or-flight feeling that is, for some odd reason, not unpleasant or overwhelming.

could be an LRC regular wrote:

OP, I read the article you linked to and this line really stood out to me "It was the sensation of being chased, immediately followed by the relief of escape. Over and over."

I read it two times, being that it so perfectly described the feeling of running stoned at a decent pace. It's an exhilarating sensation that almost feels like you are being forced to surge, and given a shot of energy to do so. It's a fight-or-flight feeling that is, for some odd reason, not unpleasant or overwhelming.

See, this is fascinating to me.

A couple others mentioned how it was "Too much motivation"

How is that possible for a drug that, generally speaking, eases pain and calms?