Last night I had about 5 beers and 4 stiff screwdrivers and was feeling good, so I said hell with it and did a nine mile run. Now there is little novelty in running drunk, you say - you could be hit by a car or run smack dab into a parking meter like a buddy of mine once did while unsucesfully trying to escape the law after kifing a street sign (he was no runner though). Yet I had an amazing run, just floating along the dark streets like nobodys business. I burst into song a few times but otherwise behaved normally. I noticed my breathing was loud and smelly I'm sure but I felt GREAT. Anyone had a similar experience?
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ha ha ha, yes! my teammates and i could often be seen running home from parties at school/in the city. for some reason we always felt faster/smoother/quicker through the streets while intoxicated. ??? prolly because it nums the body? i dunno. very dehydrated the next day though. sucked.
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LOL. Ah yes. I still have vivid memories of my 1:39 800m. run in street shoes and jeans. I had to run that fast to make last call. Like an idiot, I ran actual track meets sober and never went faster than 1:56.
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I use to run up to 15k's home in my 'dancing' shoes after a night out on the town. I once caught an ambulance with a comma'd friend to hospital and then ran back to town to tell my friends - everyone was drunk. This habit increased my weekly mileage considerably.
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running to and from the bar is the best part, next to the drinking part
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Back in the day, some on our CC team would do 15 (miles) at 2 (a.m), absolutely shit-faced, on the rural roads outside of town. We did this at least 5 times, often in non-running shoes/gear. Always felt great, like we were flying, but when we put a watch on it, we were always about 10-12 minutes slower than when we'd do the loop sober=> Must've been alcohol-induced inefficiency.
