Me after I decided to start running (for health) and the runner's high hit me out of nowhere:

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Me after I decided to start running (for health) and the runner's high hit me out of nowhere:

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1169628/me-after-i-decided-to-start-running-for-health-and-the-runner-s-high-hit-me-out-of-nowhe

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I started getting a lot of comments about bipolar disorder when I worked a job where I basically jogged for ten hours.

Maybe I am possibly undiagnosed, but also runners high is no fucking joke

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I used to run cross country in primary, middle and high school. I only felt the runners high once, in a competition where I went from middling performance to 9th in the province in the most competitive field of my time. Weirdest experience ever. Halfway through the race, I started to feel what could only be described as an orgasm , in my right thumb. I was deeply confused as to what was going on. Then the endorphines spread everywhere and I felt no pain or tiredness. I felt great everywhere. I just kept passing people effortlessly. I had never heard of the runners high and only learned of it later.

At the end of the race I could have kept going, who knows for how long.

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That’s pretty intense. Can’t say it ever felt orgasmic for me but I was probably not running at the same intensity. But that unending vigor feeling is real, like once you’re peaking it’s crazy the limits you can push your body to.

I miss doing that. Have you ever used MDMA? The lasting “glow” is pretty similar for some people

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Sadly have not.

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Eh, nothing wrong with that. Some people never try it, but definitely tag me in a trip report if you ever do

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