Runner's High or: Can LSD Make You Gay? How I Ran an Ultramarathon Tripping on a Psychedelic Drug: The Easy Guide to Doing What You Should Not

by Lucas Simon Drake

The number one do-not-try-this-at-home book: In Runner's High or: Can LSD Make You Gay? you will learn why getting high on your own supply is the best habit you can give yourself, what a shame it was that the hippies dragged a perfectly good drug through the mud in the 1960s, and how the parasitic fungus that may have caused the Salem Witch Trials could be used by the human race as major weapon in the fight against depression, addiction and mental illness. You'll be taken on a grand tour of everything from how the CIA tried using LSD to brainwash people during the cold war to the story of how the marathon (and later the ultramarathon) came to be. How do people buy drugs in the 21st century? How safe is it to use Bitcoin to buy LSD on the Darknet? To finally learn the answers to these questions and many more, join author Lucas Simon Drake on his personal journey to understand what feats the human body is capable of doing when tested to its limits. We may be born to run, but running fifty miles while under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug is not an experience for the faint of heart. Yet it might be the kind of experiment the scientific community requires to answer the age-old question: can LSD make you gay?

190 pages, Paperback

Published February 15, 2019

Reviews

[B.J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grammar errors and typos abound, this reads like a 200 page long Reddit post. The reason I made this purchase to begin with was the elevator pitch that I found in the form of a race report post on r/running. I was not disappointed.

[Shane Feuz · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I came across this book, I expected an entertaining and humorous account of a unique life experience, and I was not disappointed. It is a little strange to give this a four-star rating when viewed next to the other books I typically read, but that just highlights how our enjoyment of something depends largely on our expectations. I thoroughly enjoyed reading through this story. The author's personal experiences are interspersed with background information and folklore about psychedelic drugs and ultramarathons. The pacing is well done overall, and a little light fact checking showed that the short, simplified historical anecdotes have a solid basis in reality. My only complaint and reason for the missing 5th star is the numerous spelling and grammatical errors, but they did not detract from my enjoyment of the book. At the end of it all, I join with the author in wondering over the meaning of B, fourteen, down.

[Florian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like others, I found this on Reddit and was not disappointed by what essentially amounted to an entertaining trip report (or two or three). I expected a bit more info on the actual running: the author made it sound like his training was basically running to work and back on "most" workdays but surely that can't have been enough to go out and run 50 miles in a bit more than 10 hours. Instead of running-related details, the book included some interesting background information on the history of psychedelics.

I'm going to give this one 5 stars because I thoroughly enjoyed it and I am happy to ignore the lack of professional editing because I love the idea of people self-publishing their books and selling them for cheap. More power to you!

[Shawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun little romp through a quarter-life crisis! Interspersed with bromance and drug history, and a few runs of course.

Like others have said, the ⭐️ rating is based on context - an amateur labor of love, not self-aggrandizing or sensationalist, nowhere near as overwrought as many ‘expert’ books on sports, and promo on Amazon was a nice touch.

(Pretty solid quality for a self-published book, too. A few minor edits that could be touched up in revised ebook files & POD, but nothing that really took away from the flow.)

[Tina Halbig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read

Nice brief history of the Marathon and psychedelics. The author has an interesting writing style and incorporates these different topics with humor. The author is very courageous for attempting this feat!