Category Archives: competition

What I’d go back and say to my fifteen-old-self

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Turning fifteen years old tends to be a watershed moment in life. The freshman blues abate and the fear of junior year obligations is not yet upon you. Hormones rage but the looks to complement those desires are perhaps not … Continue reading →

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What goes on in the mind of a runner?

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

People who don’t like to run or find it boring often ask the same question: “What do you think about all that time?” Of course there’s no pat answer to that question. Runners think about a lot of things during … Continue reading →

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How do you deal with guilt?

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning at 4:45 my wife rose from bed to gather her gear and go swim. She is disciplined about her workouts. And frankly, she loves to swim. That goes back a ways, and she is good in the water. … Continue reading →

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We’re all adrift in one way or another, until one day, we’re not

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning we awoke to a layer of snow on the ground that was four inches deep. It was three-below-zero outside, so the snow was light and fluffy. “Low moisture content snow,” I heard the weatherman say. In it’s fluffiest … Continue reading →

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That locker room feeling

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

It is hard to describe the desire I had as a little kid to grow up to be an athlete. When I was so young, all I dreamed about was being big enough to wear a baseball uniform, put on … Continue reading →

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Miles of asking why…

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning’s run was conducted in deep fog. The sub-zero siege that had hold of the American Midwest has let up long enough to allow a surge of warmer air to flow over Illinois. The snow on the ground and … Continue reading →

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Shrinking the public penis problem

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

From the evidence of recent news reports, it appears that every penis on the planet has now officially either been photographed and either sent as a text or exposed directly to a member (pun intended) of the female human race. So … Continue reading →

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The sculptors of our own lives

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

There was a time when the “end of the season” was emphatic by nature. As a cross country runner through high school and college, the season would end when the success ran out. That could be the district meet or … Continue reading →

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Even the losers get lucky sometimes

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Thomas Earl Petty was born Oct. 20, 1950, in Gainesville, Fla., the first child of Earl and Katherine “Kitty” Petty. Petty had a difficult relationship with his father, and cited a particularly brutal beating he received at age 5 that … Continue reading →

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Does cycling have its own concussion problem?

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Christopher Cudworth

Watching the Grand Tours such as the Giro de Italia, the Tour de France or the Vuelta a Espana is an annual ritual for many cycling fans. But it hasn’t been an easy journey in many respects. With performance-enhancing drugs such … Continue reading →

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