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Is this normal?!

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A few hours after each run, I get quite an endorphin high - is this normal?!

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I used the phrase that the high I get after achieving my run is like a drug to me! 😳

Don’t know enough about running to know if it’s normal but your achieving and accomplishing so 👏👏👏 give yourself that credit... 😀 well done!

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Thanks x

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It is quite normal for all junkies to crave a fix of their chosen poison.

For runners that includes the endogenous morphine (endorphin) and the cannabinoid receptors in our brain being tickled.

We don't run to keep fit...........we are junkies.

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Mojojojo71Graduate in reply toIannodaTruffe

Thank you. (I don't think my mother would approve... 🤣)

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Get her running and she will love it.......

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