Monthly Archives: March 2023

50 Years of Running: When the shit really did hit the fan

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

Back in college days, I became a big Warren Zevon fan. I dug into his albums because I liked the twisted lyrics and sad, crazy, needy, nutso characters he created. Zevon later became friends with Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, one … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Transition times

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

As a triathlete, I’ve gotten used to the term “transition times” to indicate how long it takes to go from swim-to-bike to bike-to-swim. The first time I did a duathlon, before I took to swimming along with running and cycling, … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Great joys and hard lessons

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

The day-to-day joy of writing full-time for a living was not lost on me. I truly loved writing columns and found it fascinating to edit national columnists’ work from all sorts of political perspectives. As editorial writers, our job was … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Moving meditation

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

When I landed the job as an editorial writer for the Daily Herald, nothing excited me more than producing weekly columns for publication in the newspaper. I’d first done a column back in 1980 when I was just out of … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: They called me Coach too

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

Following years of coaching my son’s youth soccer teams, I started coaching the girl’s teams with my daughter Emily. She liked the concept of playing soccer, but not so much the running and such. So it was a constant issue … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: They called me Coach

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

As a young kid, I was obsessed with everything about sports. My brothers and I played every sport imaginable, all the time. Our side yard in Lancaster, Pennsylvania was the site of pickup football, soccer and baseball games of many … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: New situations, new locations

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

Starting the new job at the Daily Herald newspaper felt a bit like coming home again. But that wasn’t the only way that life felt like it was getting back to normal. The year that I joined Aspen Marketing we … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Circling back

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

Back when I lived in Paoli, Pennsylvania (182-83) during a short stint with the marketing department at Van Kampen Merritt in Philadelphia, I joined a great group of runners through the Runner’s Edge running store. Most of those guys, the … Continue reading →

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