Excuses, excuses...

Yesterday I did 45 minutes of elliptical. The machine said I burned just under 750 calories. I keep wondering if I'm wasting my time with the elliptical or if it is beneficial?

Today I did 5.5 miles at just under 9:30 minute miles. It's hard for me to imagine keeping that pace up for an entire marathon...and still coming in over 4 hours. It was an absolutely perfect evening for running, 60 degrees with a slight wind. Otherwise the run was pretty uneventful, other than me almost pooping my pants (I made it home just in time).

Today while I was running I kept thinking about a slogan they have posted on the wall in our health club, "99 percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses". I'm not sure who did the statistical analysis on that one. I'm sure my college stats professor would be asking if there was a Control Group or if it was a Double Blind study. But I found it motivational none the less.

I don't want to be one of those people who has a habit of making excuses. Lord knows I could find plenty of excuses to stop this crazy endeavor (don't get me started).

Today I'm resolving not to make excuses. So if I do fall short of my Grandma's goal, I'll at least be among the very elite group of people (1 percent) who still failed despite the fact they never made excuses. :-)