Weird. Recently started running again. Went for a very intense yesterday. Spent most of today enervated, useless, out of focus.
Went for another, longer run and snapped hard into clarity. From annoying stream-of-half-consciousness thoughts to abiding stillness.
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I assume there's some physiological explanation, but I'm not well-enough educated on that to know what it would be.
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I gather you are experiencing something that approximates to "runner's high". I get that effect as well. in dharma related terms that might be: virya then piti and sukha, and then equanimity (upekkhā).
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I tend to associate runner's high with euphoria (used to get it a lot), but this was more like - difficult to form an apt comparison - like running out of an insect cloud, perhaps.
It's not unreasonable to assume it was that, though. It's not the first time a familiar experience has taken a strange turn, and I've spent years without running much.