do you ever finish a long run and just need to have a good cry?

I would recommend lying on the floor of the shower while doing this, preferably with the water running. You don't even need to undress first.

This will help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoGcH2L68Mg

I did a 16 miler once in humid conditions at about 35 degrees around a loop with 40mph winds. I'm from the southwest so I was not acclimated to the weather. I was laid out on the floor for about 10 minutes before I noticed I was crying a little. It hurt.

In my first 50k walk, I started sobbing (no tears, but sobbing to get a breath) on the last 5km lap. Probably from having held my torso tensely for six hours.

Okay, I guess maybe that's not the same thing...

After a long run, I never had this. But then my longest training run was only 2h40m.

I have cried during a run- not from any injury or physical pain- but rather raw exertion and catharsis.

It has happened to me often when starting to run in the morning fasted when I haven't done it for a long time. I can't say that I really feel sad but at some point during the day I really feel the need to cry. I know that it will happen but can't really do anything. After a few runs it doesn't happen anymore.

i just turn into an obnoxious d!ck. like i have tourette's or something. i did a 2.5hr run tonight in my town's park ( after doing 45 min easy in the morning ) and the last 30 min i had some automatic outbursts at people hogging the trail. dog walkers with the 20ft leash/clothesline. the russian and korean grandmas who wont budge off the crushed gravel path and force me onto the asphalt. sometimes i just hear myself saying something and cant believe i just said it - f-bombs, etc. the day i limp home carrying my front teeth in one hand and using my other hand to keep my earlobe from ripping all the way off - i will post it here.

excellent trolling, i give it a 9.8/10

...ended up tearing a tendon in the middle of a long run a few months ago. Haven't been able to run since. I needed to have a good cry after I hitchhiked back home.

ed anger wrote:

i just turn into an obnoxious d!ck. like i have tourette's or something. i did a 2.5hr run tonight in my town's park ( after doing 45 min easy in the morning ) and the last 30 min i had some automatic outbursts at people hogging the trail. dog walkers with the 20ft leash/clothesline. the russian and korean grandmas who wont budge off the crushed gravel path and force me onto the asphalt. sometimes i just hear myself saying something and cant believe i just said it - f-bombs, etc. the day i limp home carrying my front teeth in one hand and using my other hand to keep my earlobe from ripping all the way off - i will post it here.

Yep, same here. It's normal to have elevated testosterone and adrenalin levels during the exercise, especially during the long lasting endurance event. It drops rapidly 20-90 minutes after completing and cortisol levels rise.

Sometimes, I am such a dick during my runs to other people that I wonder why anyone hadn't beaten me yet. Maybe I look really angry and I know for sure, I would jump on anyone no matter his size, and fight with him.

After that I am much more mellow, although I have days when I am angry all the time (when overtrained/tired). it's tough to be around a runner sometimes...

'and frantically pounded some water'

What's that?

I don't think this is a troll, because it has happened to me.

After many of my really long runs, 20+ miles, getting ready for marathons, I'd for some reason start sobbing a bit when I finished them. It wasn't anything emotional I don't think, just something about stopping after running that long triggered the response.

I always wondered about it. Only happened on really long runs.

What the hell?

Men can cry at the following events (though it is not required):

Death of a friend or family member

Serious injury to a friend or family member

When watching the ORIGINAL Brian's Song movie

When watching Old Yeller

You win the lottery (tears of happiness)

That's pretty much it.

ed anger wrote:

i just turn into an obnoxious d!ck. like i have tourette's or something. i did a 2.5hr run tonight in my town's park ( after doing 45 min easy in the morning ) and the last 30 min i had some automatic outbursts at people hogging the trail.

Same here. We have a paved bike bath with a little dirt track next to it. At the tail end of a recent LT run where I was hanging on for dear life, the bike path was empty, I'm running on the little dirt component and a biker decides he wants to ride on the dirt instead and wins the game of chicken with me. He wasn't even a sport biker, though, he had a basket on the front of the bike WITH SOMETHING IN IT (ever hear of a backpack, buddy?), and his biking pace was not that far off my running pace, and I'm no world-beater. I berated him loudly, but it may have been unintelligible. It's almost like it came out before I realized it, or that somehow what was in my head slipped out my throat. I often imagine the scenario in which I offend someone so much they decide they want to fight me, and whether I'd ask for 2 minutes or so to recover to make it a more fair fight.

I'm with you, Ed Anger. One of these days I'll surely get shot or stabbed in the last couple miles of an urban long run. Or run over: I'm just as aggressive with two ton SUVs in traffic as with hulking gangsters who make fun of my short shorts. It's the antithesis of my everyday personality, and I'm not happy about it, but there it is.

Cry after a run? No. Occasionally a performance - dance, film, music - will trigger tears or even a weird cathartic crying jag (Pina Bausch), but not running.

it's not crying. haven't you ever drank so much or smoked as a kid? Your body just gags and tears start to well up. Maybe all the inflamation(free radicals) and cortisol overwhelms your body temporarily, and tears come.

Your suggestions have the right spirit, but I'll have to reject them both. If a man cries because an attractive woman gets married, then not only did he not have a shot with her anyway, but he's likely not man enough to get an attractive woman anyway...crying over this just isn't manly. Getting hit in the balls may require some moaning and groaning and perhaps several minutes of recovery time, but crying isn't allowed for men in this case.

RD wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

What the hell?

Men can cry at the following events (though it is not required):

Death of a friend or family member

Serious injury to a friend or family member

When watching the ORIGINAL Brian's Song movie

When watching Old Yeller

You win the lottery (tears of happiness)

That's pretty much it.

As well as:

Any ridiculously attractive women getting married (Sharapova, Goucher, Vlasic etc)

Getting hit in the balls by any object going over 20 mph.

I've never cried after a long run. Sometimes I just want to go to sleep though. Also, one time on a really hot twenty miler I began to see a pitcher of lemonade hovering in front of me like the pillar-cloud-by-day and pillar-of-fire-by-night leading the children of Israel to the Promised Land. I stopped very soon after this began.

Flagpole wrote:

What the hell?

Men can cry at the following events (though it is not required):

Death of a friend or family member

Serious injury to a friend or family member

When watching the ORIGINAL Brian's Song movie

When watching Old Yeller

You win the lottery (tears of happiness)

That's pretty much it.

I cried when I found out I had cancer. Does this make me a pussy?