Author Archives: Christopher Cudworth

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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

Try something different today

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

On mornings when I drop my wife at the train for her commute, I circle around to Graham’s 318, a coffee shop on quaint little Third Street in Geneva, Illinois. But given the fact that I don’t like coffee, that … Continue reading →

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On the road with the Road Runners Club of America

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Last year in August or so, I was signed up for a Road Runners Club of America coaching certification program in southeast Michigan. On the Friday night I was scheduled to leave for the weekend, a massive rainstorm surged northeast … Continue reading →

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Transcending the vicissitudes of life

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Up until The White Album, the Beatles were a fairly unified bunch of music makers. They’d ascended to Fab Four status, toured to screaming fans, taken America by storm and were starting to feel fed up with it all. They … Continue reading →

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Something’s missing

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

I missed a day on the blog yesterday. No biggie. It’s just like missing a day in training though. When you live by a certain rhythm and things change for reasons of necessity, it’s time to adapt and move on. … Continue reading →

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A trip around the bases of life

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

My long relationship with the sport of running actually began on a baseball field in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. That’s where the coach for Local 285, the union-sponsored baseball team for which I played from the ages of 10-12, assigned us to … Continue reading →

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Holidayman triathlon welcomes happy misfits

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

First: a funny story. This year’s winner of the Holidayman sprint triathlon was Eda Davidman. She returned to win the race this year after apparently riding off the course last year, thus taking an unintentional “holiday” in the nearby town … Continue reading →

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It’s all there in the laundry

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

With two people in a marriage training and racing, a lot of laundry goes through the cycle on a weekly basis. My wife Sue is in training for Ironman Louisville. Summer calls for two workouts a day in combinations of … Continue reading →

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The Dragoon and The Blaggard

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Whether we like to admit it or not, most of us like a good revenge story. Almost every Clint Eastwood movie from the 1970s was about revenge. You know the plot. Cowboy gets beat up. Cowboy goes into hiding. Cowboy … Continue reading →

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I’m sixty years old today. And I was born this way.

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

My mother once told me that I was born at 7:00 in the morning. That fits. It is my time of day. So many mornings I have risen for workouts that started at 7:00 a.m, or earlier. It’s like being … Continue reading →

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The pleasures and perils of positive thinking

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Positive thinking has a great reputation for changing lives, empowering individuals against adversity and helping people cognitively cope with otherwise debilitating conditions of anxiety, depression and low self-esteem brought on by issues of abuse or other negative life experiences. That … Continue reading →

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