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Category Archives: Christopher Cudworth
50 Years of Running: In the land of Mr. Big
Coming off a year of running my own business and a debacle job in which Paladin Interim Staffing hired me to open a suburban Chicago office but never followed through on their promises, I floated into the spring season looking … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Of Stinky Feet and Blinding Stress
In 1995 I was thirty-eight years old with a wife and two kids, and suddenly, out of work. The ENVIRONS business I’d cobbled together with a spate of contracts fizzled out with the failure of the development company to land … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Religiously (and otherwise) Conflicted
Toward the end of my full-time employment with the Kane County Chronicle, the Publisher got frustrated with something within the organization and sent out a company memo that read, “The Truth, The Way, and the Light, The Chronicle Way.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, competition, evangelical Christianity, life and death, mental health, nature
Tagged catholicism, Christianity, conflict, conflicted, homily, hypocrisy, hypocrite, Jesus, personally conflicted, religion, religiously conflicted, tension, the truth the way and the light, wealth
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50 Years of Running: Emotional Intelligence in the Face of Corporate and Community Politics
At about the same time that I won the position of Promotions and Creative Services Manager for the Kane County Chronicle in 1990, my activity in the city of Batavia led to a rise in responsibilities in the local Chamber … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Christopher Cudworth, competition, mental health, running
Tagged advertising sales, batavia chamber, batavia chamber of commerce, batavia rotary, Boo boo days, carpetbagger, carpetbagging, corporate politics, Craig Foltos, emotional intelligence, Flag Day, Flag Museum, foltos tonsorial parlor, historical reenactment, kane county chronicle, mental health, running
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50 Years of Running: Transfer of Excellence
During my early thirties, I came up with a personal motivational concept called “transfer of excellence.” The idea centered around taking the best things you’ve learned from doing one thing and applying it to another. I wanted to carry over … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, Christopher Cudworth, college, competition, cross country, death, healthy aging, healthy senior, life and death, nature, running
Tagged artist's life, ernest hemingway writing style, ethics, hemingway prose, hunting, Kenny Moore, life as a writer, life as an artist, paper thin, pathos, running excellence, transfer of excellence, writer's life
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50 Years of Running: Lessons learned
I can think of several big mistakes that I made during my competitive running career. The biggest blunder of all was running a 20-mile final training run the week before I was scheduled to compete in the Twin Cities Marathon. … Continue reading
50 years of running: building on success
During years of competitive running from the age of twelve through post-collegiate success on the roads and track, the most important lessons learned were how to set goals and plan the process to achieve them. After being coached through high … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, college, competition, mental health, running, training, TRAINING PEAKS
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50 Years of Running: On anger, forgiveness, and those voices in your head
Three years into selling ads for what became the Kane County Chronicle after the company was sold to Shaw Newspapers out of Dixon, Illinois, our newspaper announced its plans to build a new corporate headquarters on Randall Road on the … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Gamesmanship and sandbagging
As an advertising salesperson, I not only competed against the previous year’s sales numbers in my territory. The daily game included competing with other salespeople and also other print publications and radio stations in the Fox Valley. The towns we … Continue reading
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