I’ve not had post-running euphoria - I can and do get,as another poster has said, into a flow state where everything’s fine and I could run forever. It tends to be on longer runs but I managed it on a 5K yesterday. What is perhaps more interesting than the runner’s high is all the other emotions you go through… I ran my first marathon recently, and had various bouts of bawling my eyes out in the later stages. I wasn’t sad, I wasn’t in pain, but I was a mix of happy, relieved, tired, hot and buoyed up by the crowd support, and crying was the only way it could come out. Very common, apparently.
I’ve not had post-running euphoria - I can and do get,as another poster has said, into a flow state where everything’s fine and I could run forever. It tends to be on longer runs but I managed it on a 5K yesterday. What is perhaps more interesting than the runner’s high is all the other emotions you go through… I ran my first marathon recently, and had various bouts of bawling my eyes out in the later stages. I wasn’t sad, I wasn’t in pain, but I was a mix of happy, relieved, tired, hot and buoyed up by the crowd support, and crying was the only way it could come out. Very common, apparently.