By the end it's hard not to share his sense of exhilaration.

But studies have shown that even when runners are doused with an agent that blocks the endorphins, they still experience a profound sense of exhilaration.

Then, as if by magic, a sense of exhilaration stole up on us.

But any sense of exhilaration will be tinged with anxiety over how history will judge the legacy that stretches out behind him.

It painted a bleak picture of the housing situation at the time, yet there was a sense of exhilaration too - things were going to change.

And the company numbers are sheer exhilaration: gloriously sung and nimbly stepped in cakewalks, hoedowns and polkas.

But for all its millions of pounds in extras and special effects, it pales in comparison to the sheer exhilaration of live theatre.

But, my, the sheer exhilaration.

The reward: 60 seconds of sheer exhilaration as you ride a 25ft wall of ice-cold water filled with millions of shards of razor sharp ice, mud, boulders and debris.

You feel the sheer exhilaration of the kestrel seeking its prey.