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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

Just call us Podium Boy and Girl

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

The wonderfully weird thing about endurance sports, especially triathlon, is there’s really no such thing as age and gender when you’re out there on the course. As a sixty-year old dude I realize my fastest days as an endurance athlete … Continue reading →

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Vacation in the clouds

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

For the past two weeks in Illinois we’ve had weather conditions that produce dramatic cloud patterns. While I haven’t had time enough to lie down and watch the clouds forming overhead, it has been possible to stick an arm out … Continue reading →

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On being alive

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

That’s me hanging out during our 4th of July family get-together yesterday. It was hot outside, as it should be on the 4th of July. Before the party started, I mowed a rectangle in our lawn in hopes of preparing … Continue reading →

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At long last, a swimming breakthrough

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

It hasn’t been easy, learning to swim again. Three or four years ago the process began with 25-yard gasping efforts in a tiny little pool within the X-Sport fitness facility. Then came strained sessions at the Master’s Swim program held … Continue reading →

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We were only freshman…

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning on the way to work I arrived at a Stop sign where two major streets intersect at the edge of our town. The sun was directly ahead of me with beams pouring down the avenue. As my Subaru … Continue reading →

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Coffee clutching

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

A true confession: I don’t drink coffee. Never have. Never will. Don’t like the taste. Didn’t like it forty years ago in college. Still don’t like it today. Yet last week while driving home from a gym workout, I picked … Continue reading →

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Sexuality, gender identity and the will to endure

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

The summer before my high school senior year, I knew that getting in training miles was critical to fall success. My old pair of adidas Italias were already worn out from a full season of running, but back then no … Continue reading →

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Weak-ass logic from the supposed strongman at the gym

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

For some people, the gym is a social atmosphere. They make friends, share the workouts and joke around between sets. At our local gym, a park district facility that serves a major city in Illinois, there are all kinds of … Continue reading →

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Not a second to waste

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

The wonders of technology have transformed racing to an instant gratification cycle in which we do our endurance stuff, then turn to our watches or Garmin or Strava devices and know instantly how it went down. In those respects, technology … Continue reading →

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Getting psyched up

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Today I wrote a Quora answer about an encounter I had two years ago with a crazed Trump supporter that happens to be a Ph.D psychologist. He’d posted a video on my Facebook wall in advance of the 2016 Presidential … Continue reading →

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