The best piece of advice I ever received isn't some deep thing about character. It isn't a way to conduct my life, or make friends, or even a trick to doing some essential task more efficiently. No, the best piece of advice I ever received in my life was when someone (can't remember who) reminded me that I should stretch before running.
Now, to a lot of people, that may seem glaringly obvious. But keep in mind that I've spent most of my life ridin' solo. People don't tell me how to do things; I figure stuff out on my own. So I never would have thought that loosening up my legs would make it easier to run. I didn't really ever run that much before I figured it out. It was no fun. I'd make it a couple blocks and then my legs would say "NOPE" and stop working. I assumed it was because I was out of shape, and just hated myself. Yet no matter how hard I tried, I remained "out of shape." It really sucked. Then one day, as I was heading out on another hopeless drive to get "in shape," something clicked in mah brain. I remembered that someone said I should stretch before exercising. So... I did. Stretched it out, feelin' good, ready to roll. Then I ended up running FRICKIN TWO MILES, almost effortlessly! After getting over feeling really stupid that I didn't think of this earlier, I was really happy that I was actually in decent shape after all. Now I'm running in 5Ks and such, and having a lot of fun doing it. I've found another thing that I really enjoy, all because someone once gave me the glaringly obvious piece of advice to stretch before running.
Connor out~
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