I get one at least a couple of times a week during a competitive event. It is quite a feeling that lasts a very short time, but you will know it when it occurs.

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07 E350 4matic Station Wagon White 34K
02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

Yep. You compete twice a week at least? In what?

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Drag racing.

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02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

You think that's a rush, jam an epi-pen into your leg and hang on.......

My adrenaline machine.

Not quite as fast, nor as quick as yours. But it will get the blood flowing.
(Especially when you almost hit the trees at 120kts. )

The reaction when you run up behind a water skier on Texoma (and the guys in the boat don’t tell them you’re coming) is pretty cool too.

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Orgasm?

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Drag racing? Short time? How short? 5 seconds?

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Nothing as fast as that,,,, my "racing" is very laid back but still gives me a fix.

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05 F150 Silver 44K

I get it by skiing steep terrain. Its like jumping off a 2nd story roof top 50 times in a 4-5 minute span. The rush lasts as long as the vertical does. Then you hop on a lift and do it again. The experience (and adrenalin rush) is beyond addicting, it can enslave you.

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

There ya go!

I used to climb, rockclimb. There was this guy, Dan Osman, who intentionally took falls off the top of rocks while tied to a rope. He's dead now.

Some of my friends basejump off El Capitan. Never tried it, could never afford a setup.

XC skiing difficult terrain is quite a rush. Some of the trails are about 5ft wide and twisty with trees on either side. That's pretty cool, like singletrack mountain biking but without brakes.

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Used to get it every sunday dirt bike riding with my friends. Racing hard through the woods and beating all your buddies back to the truck is a neat feeling.

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02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

running in cross country the last 50 yards gotta pass the next two people. dead tired but out of no where you blast past both of the runners.. i think thats an adrenaline rush kicking in

I think my first adrenaline rush happened when I was still pretty young, maybe 9 or so. My dad's Hobie Cat tipped over and I wound up underneath the part you sit on. I had to swim down then out to reach air again and it took a while.

I've gotten some rushes from near-accidents, too.

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Ralph

1985 300D Turbo, CA model
248,650 miles and counting...

Did he die due to a fall?

While I love the sensation of free fall, I also love a controlled escape from this. When on an airplane passing through turbulence, I’m the one who will say, “Can we do that again?” In skiing the turn is performed to control speed, potentially regain balance and of course change direction. So skiing is a lot about challenge and control. Taking yourself to the edge and using a developed set of skills is where the thrill is. There is a huge element of self-reliance in the process.

I don’t know if I’d be okay with base jumping or parachuting. It seems such an all or nothing kind of pursuit. I’m sure it would be highly addictive, and obviously a HUGE adrenalin rush, but unlike skiing, free-fall doesn’t seem to require a whole lot of developed skills or muscle control. Not that I’ve done it, but based only on observation it seems about hanging on and living through it. Perhaps there is a large element of letting go involved in this process and a total reliance on pre-determined conditions to permit you to survive?

This is not to suggest a qualitative difference between one type of adrenalin rush and another. But it begs the question of what elements in a challenge or thrill are the most enjoyable or addicting?

BTW, if you want to blow off speed while XC skiing (open heel), how do you do it?

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

Dano died when his rig failed.

To scrub off speed while XC skiing you snowplow like crazy. It's nigh impossible on icy downhills. If you can find a berm you can ride it around the corner. If you're in the tracks you take one foot out of the tracks and snowplow with one foot.

When all else fails you just sit down on your butt.

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