I honestly think people should stop giving themselves excuses or making excuses.
Actually it is the very reason people can’t move forward or progress. It’s always this and that. If not this, then it’s that.
Then, they lament they are unhappy with their life.
Just yesterday I went for a run at 6.30pm after work at the park behind my office. I invited a wanna-desperately-lose-weight person to run with me. I even took the lift right down to the ground floor to check the viability of running since from the 18th Floor, I could see people carrying umbrella while walking.
The verdict was it was drizzling a drop every 5 seconds. Just a drop.
And she said, she’ll fall sick with the rain drops, coupled with the path being slippery (even though the park’s jogging trail were made of soft non-mark rubber for good shock absorption and friction) and that the weather is definitely going to rain more than the little drizzle.
I’m baffled.
People want to look good and yada yada but thinks everything comes without effort. I mean, there is no free lunch. Metaphorically speaking.
So I do wonder why it is sometimes or rather most of the time, people fail to be objective and focus on what they really want, rather than every now and then wasting their time lamenting of what they don’t have.
It perplexes me.
Then I have been experiencing this person in FB who never seized to boast about how she intends to be running some marathons, pictures of the running shoes she has bought, books and journal about yoga and running and yada yada yada.
So I invited her for a fun 10K Nike is hosting in KL City (it’ll be a fun run running around the city). She replied she is not that fit after all, she don’t think she can even do a 5km in a month’s time. And excuses, she has not been running for the past 8 days and she’s more into yoga now.
Haha. Evil I may sound but sometimes it’s nice to push people like this to a corner and check their ultimate reaction. LOL.
So far, we are going to be off for a break for the Hari Raya so tomorrow is an official holiday in Malaysia. I’m elated and I’m very inclined to do a total of 30K this week. Once I’m feeling fine with the mileage, it will be 10% incremental to 21K coupled with tempo and fartlek to push my running to a higher level of pace.
Let’s see. Let’s see how far I can push myself and how far I can make a good PR. My current objective is sub-2 hours. I know it’s ambitious but hell if many, many runners could do it, how different am I to them?
*grin*
So yes, I’m busy with these. Couples with my reading. Am still on with the pile of books I bought. Yeah!
