Category Archives: Christopher Cudworth

Sleep it off now and then

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

During the summer months we often wake quite early to run or ride before the wind and heat pick up. A few times this summer I even rode in the morning on weekdays. That required getting out the door by … Continue reading →

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When you’re so popular it hurts

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This past Sunday my wife and I took a trip to meet up with friends at the Morton Arboretum, one of the Chicago area’s most popular places to commune with nature and frolic among the trees. We were attending one … Continue reading →

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On the day your father dies

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Three years ago today I visited my father in the hospital for the last time. He’d lived with the effects of a profound stroke for more than 15 years. My mother died in 2005 and that left me in charge … Continue reading →

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A taste of bittersweet early in the sweet season

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This is the second installment of eight blogs about a cross country season forty years ago. On Thursdays, I will recount a most significant period in life, a senior year in college. That’s when hard work paid off, self-belief took hold … Continue reading →

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One Sweet Season: Volume One

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This will be the first in an installment of eight blogs about a cross country season forty years ago. Over the next eight Thursdays, I will recount a most significant period in life,  entering a senior year in college. That’s … Continue reading →

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Life is just nuts sometimes

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

The Acorn While talking with my brother-in-law this weekend, I learned that he is heavily involved in removing acorns from his lawn. He’s not one to exaggerate. He’s always been a person to calculate his statements with some accuracy given … Continue reading →

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25 answers to how slow I ran yesterday

Posted on September 21, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

It’s been hot, hot, hot in Illinois the last few days. It was 95 degrees in the shade when I went out the door to run yesterday. There was a flat, dry wind blowing from the south. so as I … Continue reading →

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Being a wholly gaseous planet is not all that it’s cracked up to be

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

A few years back I bought a jug of whole milk at the grocery store. I wasn’t really thinking about the “whole” thing, just grabbed the jug and threw it in the cart. Growing up, we drank whole milk quite … Continue reading →

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Wearing down the competition, and not yourself

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

So many endurance events come down to a contest of attrition. In a distance race, the matter of who wins and who loses often comes down to the competitor that can hang on the longest. During one of my triathlon … Continue reading →

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Wish you were here

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning as I ran my typical 8:30-9:00 pace for four miles in the early September humidity, I thought back to the training I was doing 40 years ago, in 1978. That was the year our college team took second … Continue reading →

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