Keep Rollin Rollin Rollin...

I know y'all be loving this stuff right here, L U K E is running right here.  (say to the beginning of Rollin' from Limp Bizkit, funnier that way)


Squad.
When running long distances, make sure that you ate enough the day before, have been hydrating regularly, for just one day is not enough, and most of all, make sure you have Fu.....
Alright, that last one isn't necessary. What is necessary is to have the right mindset. It doesn't necessarily have to be "fun" related, but it does have to involve longevity. A longer run is literally a marathon and not a sprint and therefore cannot be trained the same. This too goes for life. This hopefully, long life partially depends on how long we are planning on being here. We could plan for today alone and drink all day, plan for a week where we take a little better care of ourselves to last that long, or maybe even just a few years, for which we have to actually make sacrifices, like a salad instead of French Fries.
Me, I want to live to see 80 at least. When I'm 79 ask again. For right now, if I could choose an age, it would be 80. I would get to see my daughter almost get to 50 and I would assume if she was going to, she would be married and have a child by then. I would be old enough to be wise, without being too old to start getting really goofy.
So, for 80 I have to make some plans here on Earth, now. Things like, take care of myself, eliminating excessive thinking, and going with a balanced approach my body can tolerate. Not diets, exercise, sleep, or stress management, but my overall mindset on things. See, all those other things are important to me, but they are not everything, they cannot even be a majority. What a good mindset does is allow me to live a better, through higher quality of life, versus just living longer.
Yes, by eating fish and vegetables instead of McDonalds I could prolong life. However, what if my entire life I am living in-spite of a diet. Like I resent the fact that to live longer I have to eat this healthy crap. What good does that do me, or you for that matter? What good is it to live this resentful life? What a waste. I want to live now, better. I cannot necessarily do that with food choices, because if I was just living today it would have been a dozen donuts and a pizza by now, but with my mind. I can live balanced, mindful, and most importantly, humbly.

Yes, sit down.
Humility is an often overlooked aspect of health. It involves being beneficial, not right. Being right and knowing it doesn't help anybody except protect a fragile ego. 

 I have built a fortress of pride around my extremely fragile ego. A fortress that justified bitter feelings, a competitive world-view, and isolation even when I am around people. I engaged this "diet" part of my thinking and went all-in on it. I wanted people to know how smart I was so that I could be called smart and boost my tiny, pathetic self. My fortress would not allow others to just be. I had to insert myself and let them know I was right, even at the cost of overall benefit.
Humility is not as easy as eating right or going to the gym. It is difficult and insidious. Humility is the anti-pride, the cure for pride cancer, and will make people naturally like and want to be around you. For me, it is OK to be genuine and honest. I find it easier than lying or being someone I am not. Humility has to drive this car. Pride crashes me into the other car and then blames them.
I need to practice saying "my bad."
"You're right."
"I assumed."
All those phrases that indicate a possibility of a different answer. Those things people do not want to say or admit to even in their own prideful heads. For this is how far down the rabbit hole goes, into our minds, our core beliefs about ourselves. Pride has its roots in all we do and prevents us from learning or gaining anything from outside our own. Essentially it is there to protect, but it also prevents growth. The prideful athlete on TV is great in his professional environment. Outside of that, pride gets in the way from a higher quality of life, as can be seen by the numerous news stories on athletes these days.
What works best for a long-run, like I am attempting recently is the proper mindset. A mindset of "OK, this is going to be long, remember that." The same concept has to be applied to life, if you want to live longer than just now that is.
Maybe 85 would be better?

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