Monthly Archives: January 2022

50 Years of Running: Hilarity on the move

Posted on January 20, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

As any runner knows, it is conversations that help make the miles go by in training. The ribbing and joking, the racing tales and discussions about dating, and more. These are the graces that get you through hours on the … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Caught between two worlds

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

Living in Paoli was a compromise. Sitting at the end of the Main Line commuter route, it marked the outer limits of the Philadelphia suburbs. I only found the place through a realtor kind enough to show me around the … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: A wild ride on the white horse

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

When white horses are seen, it is often an indication of being spiritually aware. It can symbolize innocence and purity, be a symbol of good fortune, or even represent prosperity. Being chased by a white horse in a dream can be … Continue reading →

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50 Year of Running: What drives a young man?

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

Starting up my new running journal was a strange feeling, but the timing was interesting. New apartment in a new city. All-new running routes. On August 12, 1982 I wrote: “Two nights ago the run went marvelous, physiologically. After having … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Moving stories

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

The first time I moved from one state to another, I was five years old. The night before we left Seneca Falls, New York, I stayed at the home of my kindergarten teacher because the rest of my family was … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: I got the news

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

Broadway Duchess…darling if you only knew…Half as much as, everybody thinks you do “I Got the News,” by Steely Dan, from the album Aja During my nightly runs in the City of Geneva where I lived, I’d often glance at … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Head games

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

In March of 1982, I picked up training mileage as the weather slowly improved. February saw a series of thirty-mile weeks, but March jumped to the mid-forties and then the mid-fifties. Then disaster hit. “Took ill at end of March,” … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Pirates in spirit

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

On a cold January night in 1982, one of my running buddies showed up to have a few beers, talk about training, and shoot the bull about life in general. But that evening, I had a surprise to share with … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: The winter of my discontent

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

When the temperature hit -26 degrees on January 10 of 1982, I’d already been inside for two or three days, and was getting cabin fever. Even girlfriend company didn’t help. I was stir crazy and needed to get out for … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Life tectonics

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

By the winter of 1981, I’d completed much of the fictional book Admissions that I’d written on the train while commuting to Chicago. One of the main characters in the book was a professor that invented a concept called Life … Continue reading →

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