Anyone have an adrenaline rush ?

[Pete Geither]

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.

[Kuan]

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

[Pete Geither]

Drag racing.

[John Doe]

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

[WVOtoGO]

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.

[DuckMuck]

Originally Posted by Pete Geither

It is quite a feeling that lasts a very short time, but you will know it when it occurs. Is this usual or not ?

Orgasm?

[Kuan]

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

[Lebenz]

Originally Posted by Pete Geither

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. Is this usual or not ?

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.

[Pete Geither]

Originally Posted by Kuan

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

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

[Kuan]

Originally Posted by Lebenz

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.

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.

[Pete Geither]

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.

[TheDon]

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

[Maroon 300D]

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.

[JCE]

Originally posted by BlackE55
Anytime there's a code blue announced over the PA system. Half the time they're dead when you get to the room. Damn big hospital, that UW.

Know what you mean - put myself through grad school working ER as a CP tech. in a big hospital. But isn't it a rush when you can help snatch them back again? Only 2 bigger adreneline rushes are:

1) sitting on my MTB and looking at a seriously sick descent, wondering if I can do it and stay upright, then thinking 'one way to find out' and pushing off into air!

2) having 4 good looking women run to the side of my bed. Unfortunately, they were all wearing scrubs, and were looking at my CICU monitor instead of me.

[WVOtoGO]

Originally Posted by BlackE55

Yup, lotsa those in the hosp. If only I were single.

Be careful what you wish for.

(Or......maybe not.)