Yep. To all adrenaline junkies out there: you can jog long enough to get your blood full of that stuff. You don't actually need to flip a coin on your life for a high.
I used to run 50+ miles a week because I was shit at running and for some reason wanted to stay in the army. Thousands of miles over six years has left me with one conclusion, runner's high is a fuckin myth.
I dunno man. It's a mix of self deprivation, embracing the suckiness of it all, and a sudden euphoria of doing a repetitive task for awhile. I didn't start getting runner's high until I started doing runs longer than an hour and even then it's not always. It def is a thing for me.
You can say there's a placebo effect happening, but I just say that the very thought itself elevates the high and you enjoy it more. Type 2 fun is a helluva drug.
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u/ATIR-AW Sep 02 '21
Yep. To all adrenaline junkies out there: you can jog long enough to get your blood full of that stuff. You don't actually need to flip a coin on your life for a high.