{"id":535,"date":"2017-05-20T00:45:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T00:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2017-05-20T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T00:45:36","slug":"national-beatings-breaking-point-51317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/20\/national-beatings-breaking-point-51317\/","title":{"rendered":"National Beatings &#8211; Breaking Point (5\/13\/17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Still not me.  But Sunday should give me an opportunity to have a similar photo.]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFill up your head and fill up your heart and take your shot\u201d (Dave Matthews)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday is the day \u2013 my shot to qualify for PT Nationals.  And while I\u2019m a little nervous going into it because of how quickly I need to do the run, I\u2019m grateful to have the shot.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, what was supposed to be the \u2018put together\u2019 session did not go well.  While I was glad that my guide was honest about it not going to work, it was a hard blow.  To be honest, I came very close  to just tapping out and focusing on June\u2019s races.  I wasn\u2019t upset or frustrated with my guide, just with the situation it put me in.  But Mr. Miles refused to let me dwell in the bleh of the situation.  <\/p>\n<p>I believe his exact words were \u201cMeow Mrrrow Mrrrrrrrrow Meow Yowl.\u201d  Loosely translated, it means \u201cPull your head out of your ass and find another plan.\u201d  And so I did, and it should all work out.<\/p>\n<p>One of the givens of this sport is that there\u2019s going to be adversity.  Whether it\u2019s a double flat, unknown dehydration or something else, you have to be strong enough to fight through it.  Rely on those in your inner circle when you need that extra boost.  Don\u2019t ever let it break you.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who want to come out and watch, the race starts at about 8A on Sunday in Niles (Leaning Tower YMCA) for our group.  Looking forward to writing the blog on Monday sharing how I qualified!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Still not me. But Sunday should give me an opportunity to have a similar photo.] \u201cFill up your head and fill up your heart and take your shot\u201d (Dave Matthews) Sunday is the day \u2013 my shot to qualify for PT Nationals. And while I\u2019m a little nervous going into it because of how quickly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/20\/national-beatings-breaking-point-51317\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Beatings &#8211; Breaking Point (5\/13\/17)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,281,229],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-james-gilliard","tag-national-beatings","tag-pt-nationals"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}