{"id":1415,"date":"2026-07-31T00:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:25:52","slug":"2026-season-halfway-point-6-30-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/2026-season-halfway-point-6-30-26\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Season Halfway Point (6\/30\/26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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(Photo from Video; Video courtesy of ND Football staff)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back on the first half of my 2026 season, it definitely hasn’t gone as I had planned it. None of bike challenges, wetsuit challenges, and DNF’ing a race were on my 2026 bingo card\u2026 And I’ll admit that some of those have been harder to deal with than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though it’s been frustrating at times, I will always keep moving forward and striving to improve. I think this was best crystalized in a statement I heard within the last week (paraphrased) — ‘I don’t look at it as if I won or lost; I look at it as if I won or learned from it.’ The latter part of their statement is what I’ve chosen to focus on in this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just a few of the lessons learned include focusing more on nutrition, going further than just having a plan Z on race weekend, and being willing to try new gear. On that last point, I hope to figure out the long-term wetsuit issue soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall sizing of the wetsuit is correct. I believe that going up a size would probably be too large and create drag. But from the two June triathlons, it seems that I need to find something different since it’s compressing my upper chest (near lungs) too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And even though there have been struggles the first half of the year, I am not giving up or packing it in. I have a long, important second half of the season, which includes all of my “A races”. What’s helped me to continue pushing through is the knowledge that the hard work pays off — which the header photo shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to 2023, I’d had hundreds upon hundrds of snaps on different football fields. Up to that point, I had zero TDs and zero fumble recoveries. In that one camp, I accomplished both (along with a second TD the following year). While it took 17 years to get to that point, I didn’t give up — I kept going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s how I choose to look at things overall. I will continue putting in the work, showing up at start lines, and know that the hard work pays off. Here’s to a strong second half of 2026!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo from Video; Video courtesy of ND Football staff) Looking back on the first half of my 2026 season, it definitely hasn’t gone as I had planned it. None of bike challenges, wetsuit challenges, and DNF’ing a race were on my 2026 bingo card\u2026 And I’ll admit that some of those have been harder to … Continue reading 2026 Season Halfway Point (6\/30\/26)<\/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-1415","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\/1415","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=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}