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About Christopher Cudworth

Christopher Cudworth is a content producer, writer and blogger with more than 25 years’ experience in B2B and B2C marketing, journalism, public relations and social media. Connect with Christopher on Twitter: @genesisfix07 and blogs at werunandride.com, therightkindofpride.com and genesisfix.wordpress.com Online portfolio: http://www.behance.net/christophercudworth

In which we learn that we’re all really playing on the same team

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

Today’s We Run and Ride features a link to my Pulse article on today’s on LinkedIn. It reveals how even people in sports, business, politics and religion are actually collaborating in an evolutionary process known as competition. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141009151308-18039128-there-may-be-no-i-in-team-but-there-is-one-in-evolution

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The Ebola virus is about to run rampant

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth I have this friend that gets sick fairly often. When he gets sick, he gets very sick. Coughing, hacking, spitting blood even. For years he has jokingly called these episodes for what they are. “I have Ebola,” … Continue reading →

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There’s a little Apocalypto in us all

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth There are certain movies that are watchable again and again. One of my guilty cinematic pleasures is the movie Apocalypto. It is directed by Mel Gibson, whose Passion of the Christ and Braveheart films are some of the … Continue reading →

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What a 5K for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and National Mental Health Awareness week can teach us all about healthy minds

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth For the last six or seven years it has been a joy to rise on an early October morning to support a local race in Batavia, Illinois called the NAMI 5k. The race raises money each year … Continue reading →

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A long and complicated relationship with the shower

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth As a matter of tradition, the phrase “hit the showers, boys!” used to ring out after every high school and college athletic practice. We’d drag our tired bodies back to the locker room, strip naked and stand under … Continue reading →

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The danger in running away from ourselves

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

Still don’t know what I was waitin’ for And my time was runnin’ wild A million dead end streets and Every time I thought I’d got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself … Continue reading →

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Here’s to a bloody good time when you run and ride

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth Something in us is wired to recoil at the sight of blood. Yet the phrase “bloody” or “bloody good” is used as an “intensifer” to describe all sorts of activities from drinking to comedy to simply hanging out … Continue reading →

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What one small bird can tell those of us who run and ride

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth This time of year is peak migration season for songbirds. Millions of birds are moving south for the winter in search of food sources and warmer temperatures. It’s a tough go, made even tougher by the fact that in … Continue reading →

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Time as measured by pumpkins and apple cider donuts

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth There was a moment in the mid-season finale of the Starz series The Outlander in which the main character Claire Randall Beecham Frazier (you’ll have to watch to understand) approaches a set of stones on the hill of Craigh … Continue reading →

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Running around the Garden of Eden and the Human Race

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Christopher Cudworth

Today’s We Run and Ride features lessons in morality and some important thoughts about commitment to your training. You likely know how it all begins, for it is the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. We enter the story at … Continue reading →

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