I experienced runners high yesterday and today, and its the best feeling anyone can get in practice. I've ran 2 straight hard workouts, and I feel relatively fine
When did you get runners high?
I experienced runners high yesterday and today, and its the best feeling anyone can get in practice. I've ran 2 straight hard workouts, and I feel relatively fine
When did you get runners high?
What exactly is runners high?
Runners High is that great feeling you get in practice. You might be doing a long run or light intervals or whatever, and suddenly you get this 'second wind', and you feel invincible, like you could run forever and not feel any pain. From experience, it usually happens on long runs or a moderatly hard workout
Physically speaking "Runner's High" is simply your body's release of endorphins. When your body senses that you are in pain...say when you are running a hard or rather lengthy workout...it responds by releasing endorphins. Endorphins are nothing more than pain-relieving chemicals similar to morphine. Personally I experience the best "Runner's High" after a long run in chilly weather. Nothing beats a 3 hour run over the hilly countryside when it's 40 degrees.
For more info:
http://www.lehigh.edu/dmd1/public/www-data/sarah.html
Alan
Where does packing a fatty fit into this discussion?
You fags need to take this runner's high shit back to the Runner's World site.
Didn't you race on Saturday?? If you raced Saturday, you follow up with hard workouts on Tuesday and Wednesday...plus a possible dual meet this week...we usually had a dual meet during the week when I ran. Didn't you have recent posts re: a knee and ass injury? I would say you may be pushing it a bit depending on how serious your injury was.
Baldy
I once had an interesting experience I would call "runners high" for lack of a better term. At about 18 miles into a 20 miler (6:30 pace, for perspective) I was feeling very ragged. I just wanted to finish the last few miles and get it over with, didn't really care about pacing.
My legs slowly got very warm, and with a mile to go my legs felt great. I did my last mile in an effortless 5:10.
My father has also had this happen twice.
I've had it happen 4 times in the past 2 yrs
My ass was a pull, and my knee thing just went away. I'm goin easy friday for a meet saturday, and i couldnt run saturday cause i went to see my bro in richmond
In response to Hurl
Your a fagot, face it. You know u are, i can tell by the way u responded that u have no life
What about the experience a sprinter has? I look at Flojo in the 100m or Michael Johnson in the 400m and they look like they are in a runner's high zone.
Where did you find that article? I went to school with Sarah Willett. Funny.
well, runners high happens to me in practice, never in a race. You'd have to ask a sprinter, i have no clue
Runner's High = you're not running fast enough.
its not that, its just that you get it when you're doing an easy workout, say like 5-6 miles at 75%, or even a tune-up workout