Category Archives: Christopher Cudworth

10 Reasons Why You Can’t Wait for Spring

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth
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Celebrating the fitness of youth

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

As my companion Sue and I did a workout of 6 X 800 on the Batavia High School indoor track this morning, we noticed that a couple kids had showed up with their parents to run. Between intervals I jogged over … Continue reading →

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You do your best with the body (and brain) that you have

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

As children we imagine that all things are possible. You can be what you want to be. That childlike innocence has its purpose. It enables the mind to grow unhindered. We explore through play. Some of us take up that banner … Continue reading →

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That swimming thing, Part Deux

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning was my second swim session with Whitney, the swim instructor at XSport St. Charles. What a gift today was! Over the weekend with my companion Sue I was reviewing the things I was doing with swim class last week. Understand … Continue reading →

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It’s a cold, cold world and that’s snot funny

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Sometime late yesterday afternoon I choked a bit on a section of Clif Bar. Immediately after my throat felt funny. I’d upset the equilibrium somehow… By evening there was a familiar tingling in my nose that told me a cold … Continue reading →

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Running and riding through personal history

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

I belong to XSport, a fitness club with two locations within 5 miles of my house, one in Batavia where I live and one in St. Charles, just up the road. The St. Charles location is on Randall Road, one … Continue reading →

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Designed by air

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

During a visit to the Chicago Auto Show this past weekend, we were entering the Toyota arena while a speaker laid into the benefits of some sort of concept or luxury sports couple gleaming in the bright lights. He was … Continue reading →

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Is Classic Rock really good for you?

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

In the early scenes of the movie Silver Linings Playbook, the character played by Bradley Cooper has recently been checked out of a treatment center for mental illness. His anxiety remains at a boiling point. When he walks into his … Continue reading →

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On Sports Illustrated, Victoria’s Secret, tattoos and other not so secret displays of self

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

As a devout liberal and Progressive thinker, I’m all for people being and doing what they want with their bodies. Yet something in me recoils at the manufactured imagery of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. Or for that matter, the airbrushed models in … Continue reading →

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Liv Cycling’s newest Ambassador shares the joys of cycling and triathlon

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth Sarah Wangerin Farsalas is a resident of Wheaton, Illinois. But that’s just a point of reference for the spectrum of highly mobile adventures in which she engages. Farsalas is first and foremost a mother of three children. That keeps … Continue reading →

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