# Do you typically experience a "runner's high" during or after exercise?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 21, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-typically-experience-a-runners-high-during-or-after-exercise/735347 "2015-10-21T12:41:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-typically-experience-a-runners-high-during-or-after-exercise/735347/21 "2015-10-21T21:03:00Z")

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I don’t know that I would call it a high, but I’m always glad I did it. I used to play tennis every Friday with 3 other people, and I would always grumble about my crap week and how I was so tired and did I really have to do this…but I would always go because three people on a tennis court is just no good and I didn’t want to let them down. And every single time I felt less tired after playing for a couple of hours than I had before I went. You would think I would have been able to convince myself each week by that alone (“Just go, you know you’ll feel better”) but for some reason my mind doesn’t work that way.

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