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Category Archives: Christopher Cudworth
50 Years of Running: The Sectional Wall
As the cross country season rolled to a close in November1973, our squad ran in a tough sectional in the Chicago suburbs and didn’t advance downstate. That would have been a stretch for a program that was just beginning to … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Forgettable and Unforgettable
Looking back at a running career is a bit kaleidoscopic. Memories sometimes mix and turn circles in the mind. Others bubble up unintentionally, driven by autumn light or the smell of the air on an October day. While many of … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Where Respect Is Due
Midway through the 1973 season, I’d run well enough, and our team was doing so well, that we began to gain the attention of some local sportswriters. The newspapers that covered our team included the St. Charles Chronicle, the hometown … Continue reading
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50 Years of Running: Social Circles
As the New Kid In Town, it was daunting at first to navigate the culture in St. Charles versus the first two years I spent at the much smaller Kaneland High School out in the cornfields of Illinois. It was … Continue reading
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50 Years of Running: The Peregrine
This morning while walking the dog in late September sun, I thought back to one of the first cross country meets of the season for St. Charles in 1973. Our team was training well, and we knew that there were … Continue reading
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Tagged birding, birdwatching, cross country, DDT, gyrfalcon, j.a. baker, ja baker, naperville central, natural history, natural history writing, peregrine falcon, peregrine falcons, st charles cross country, the peregrine
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50 Years of Running: A Force of Nature
Few activities put you more in touch with nature than distance running. That’s especially true in cross country, where the training often takes you into the woods and fields where it’s you, the air you breath and the ground you … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: The adidas factor
The year in which I began my running career were a transitional time in terms of available running shoes. The gum rubber flats we used for training in 1971 and ’72 were not much good for road running. I was … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: A New Kid In Town
Johnny-come-latelyThe new kid in townEverybody loves youSo don’t let them down You look in her eyesThe music begins to playHopeless romanticsHere we go again Once the school year ended and my daily commute from St. Charles to Kaneland High School … Continue reading
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50 Years of Running: Jumping Through Hoops
While my love of running had grown through a pair of successful cross country seasons, I’d been raised in a basketball family and went straight to practice the week after the Sectionals meet where our small school got handed a … Continue reading
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