{"id":1471,"date":"2026-10-24T15:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:05:56","slug":"starting-over-10-23-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/starting-over-10-23-26\/","title":{"rendered":"“Starting Over” (10\/23\/26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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More than twelve years in, it feels like I’m “starting over”. I know that sounds very odd to say after 300+ races in close to twenty states (and one country), on top of training throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is what I mean: For 2027, I already have at least six international races on the calendar, along with at least two National races. On top of that, I have at least thirty “local” (meaning not National\/International\/World) races. I still don’t know what else will get added, as I have not heard anything back from USAOCR. And there are several other things in the pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of that said, the “normal” training that I’ve done to this point will not suffice for 2027’s season. I know I need to go back to the drawing board to succeed during this very long and very fun season. Some of it will be easy — such as continuing and ramping up the “off-season” pieces — but others will take time. But I’m confident that it will all come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve got great coaches in my corner, along with guides and so many others to support me; I’ve got many training tools and nutrition items; I believe I can put it all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’d like to help support my 2027 season, please watch for the formal fundraising, which will launch in early 2027. You can also help by subscribing to my Patreon (http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/nocrappyexcuses<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than twelve years in, it feels like I’m “starting over”. I know that sounds very odd to say after 300+ races in close to twenty states (and one country), on top of training throughout the country. But this is what I mean: For 2027, I already have at least six international races on the … Continue reading “Starting Over” (10\/23\/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-1471","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\/1471","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=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}