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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

Somewhere over the rainbow

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Last evening while driving from home to my art studio for a painting session, the clouds to the east grew dark at twilight. Then the sun broke through from the west and caught the edge of the clouds. Up from … Continue reading →

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What’s it like to go really nuts?

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Ten years ago in the throes of caring simultaneously for a wife with cancer and a father who was a stroke victim, the emotional toil became too great. I met with my doctor who prescribed an anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication … Continue reading →

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A watershed moment at the football locker room door

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning’s Chicago Tribune had a long story about the dropping levels of enrollment in youth football leagues. We say “enrollment” as if kids were signing up for dance class. Football is a type of dance, you might say. Yet … Continue reading →

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No better place than Decorah, Iowa

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

As a freshman at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, the new environment around our college campus was a mystery. Those first few weeks looping around town in training for cross-country amounted to one unveiling after another. There were gravel roads … Continue reading →

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Chris Froome demonstrates the fine art of staying upright

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

    Well, I feel much better about my cycling today. After all, I just got done watching Chris Froome, current leader of GC category in the Vuelta a Espana, fall flat on his ass on a clear piece of … Continue reading →

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Taking inspiration where you find it

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

That’s me in the lower left of this photo with the buzz cut and the happy grin. That’s because I was a basically happy kid in fourth grade. My teacher was an amazing person named Miss Kegerreis. She was blonde, … Continue reading →

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Youth isn’t always wasted on the young

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

With August nearly over and the sun starting to slide south toward twilight, it is hard not to draw some associations with seasons past. With fall approaching, there is not a runner alive whose senses do not perk up while … Continue reading →

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Glenn’s labor of love

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Glenn Lyle was what he characterizes as “an okay runner” in the years just before Frank Shorter’s won the 1972 Olympic marathon and set off the first running boom. Lyle graduated from the Elgin High School cross country and track … Continue reading →

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A 20-miler in 80-degree heat and no water. Insane? Or just another day’s work…

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

In the early days of a warm September, our college cross country team was scheduled to run a 20-mile run. The route called for ten miles up to a school called North Winnishiek and back. We ran on the gravel … Continue reading →

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If it’s change you want, it pays to invest in the Performance Piggybank

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

As athletes, we might imagine that change comes about in big breakthroughs. We train everyday hoping there will come a day when the nine-miler that felt hard last weekend suddenly feels easy. Yet that’s not how it usually works. Instead, … Continue reading →

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