{"id":1340,"date":"2025-08-08T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:57:29","slug":"the-june-that-wasnt-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/the-june-that-wasnt-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The June that Wasn’t (June 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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(2024 FFC Photo, courtesy of Notre Dame Photo Staff)

While I hadn’t intended to write this specific blog, I will since I’ve talked about it publicly (as part of the podcast).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leon’s was supposed to be the first of many races and events in June.  At a minimum, I had Pleasant Prairie, the Dare2Tri relay, and the Spartan Farm Experience on my calendar.  But June did not turn out as I had planned\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though it did not work out for me to participate in the camp this year, I was still there for the game that caps the Notre Dame Football Fantasy Camp.  WHile it was great to meet Rudy, I wish I had been able to be at camp and have had more time to talk with him.  But things work out as they’re mean to, and I’m grateful for the opportunities I’ve had. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that point, my June fell apart.  I’m not going to go into the reasons why publicly.  But the bottom line is that none of the other athletic things happened.  And I felt “stuck” for most of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What got me “unstuck” was what had also pulled me out of the darkness 22 years earlier — an opportunity to go see a Dave Matthews Band concert.  And just knowing that I’d have that opportunity made that week easier.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I’ve said over the years, music can do magical things.  So when you feel “stuck”, find the music that makes you happy and use it to climb out. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(2024 FFC Photo, courtesy of Notre Dame Photo Staff) While I hadn’t intended to write this specific blog, I will since I’ve talked about it publicly (as part of the podcast). Leon’s was supposed to be the first of many races and events in June.  At a minimum, I had Pleasant Prairie, the Dare2Tri relay, … Continue reading The June that Wasn’t (June 2025)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}