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Category Archives: death
50 years of running: Saying goodbyes and taking on a new life
As the school year wore down in 1970, the time for our family to move to Illinois soon arrived. My father moved out to Illinois after taking a job with an electronics company in rural Geneva. He lived in an … Continue reading
Posted in aging, anxiety, Christopher Cudworth, competition, death, Depression, healthy aging, life and death, love, running
Tagged baseball pitcher, breaking up is hard to do, corporate moves, depression and anxiety, friends, friendships, life transitions, moving, nature exploration, running as a form of therapy, self actualization
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50 Years of Running: Jacked around
Having moved everything I owned east to Philly the previous August, now I was faced with hauling everything back to Chicago the following May. Through a few quick conversations with a close friend living on the north side of the … Continue reading
Posted in 400 meter intervals, 400 workouts, addiction, Christopher Cudworth, cross country, death, fear, gay marriage, life and death, love, mental illness, race pace, Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan occupation and war, bush doctrine of pre-emptive war, dick cheney and george w bush, invasion of iraq, newt gingrich, president ronald reagan, reaganomics and trumpism, religion and politics, ronald reagan an reaganomics, trump insurrections, trumpism, who shot JFK, who shot MLK, who shot rfk
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50 Years of Running: Marching on
By March 6, 1983, the weather in southeastern Pennsylvania was beginning to moderate. I ran a sixteen-miler in 1:43 on a route that I now knew well enough to do with confidence. No more getting lost in horse country. I … Continue reading
Posted in blood on the highway, Christopher Cudworth, competition, death, fear, mental health, mental illness, race pace, racing peak, running, running shoes, sex, we run and ride
Tagged car crash, collision, collision course, collision insurance, insurance fraud, Pennsylvania vehicle registration, whiplash
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50 Years of Running: Hawaiian getaway
Somewhere during the middle of November, 1981, I received a call from the father of a woman I’d dated earlier in the month. She’d been sweet, and demure, and I was respectful toward her. So I didn’t automatically think the … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, Christopher Cudworth, death, love, nature, running, sex
Tagged death of john lennon, golfing in Oahu, happy Christmas war is over, hawaiian getaway, hawaiian golf courses, honolulu hawaii, military bases on oahu, oahu callgirls, oahu escorts, pearl harbor attack, pearl harbor day, waikiki
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50 Years of Running: Fear and Loathing in Cross country
I was too young to have read anything by Hunter S. Thompson when I was a freshman in high school. But it would have been good for me to absorb some of the fearless antics of the Gonzo journalist that … Continue reading
Olympic-sized pressures
A week ago the Linkedin group The Female Lead that I follow posted an image of three ‘women of color’ athletes who won’t be competing at the Olympics due to “rules” they supposedly broke in the past few months. The … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, anxiety, death, Depression
Tagged Gwen Berry, mental health, Naomi Osaki, Olympic sized pressures
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The wrong kind of Tick Tock
Here’s something I can say without remorse or equivocation. I hate ticks. Regular old dog ticks are bad enough. They find their way onto my socks and pants in the fields and make their way up my body until something … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, covid-19, death, running
Tagged deer tick, Donald Trump, fuck donald trump, infectious diseases, lyme disease, tick, ticks, trumpism, virus
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Step on the gas and wipe that tear away
The famous closing suite of songs on The Beatles album Abbey Road offers a ton of quotable lyrics. As spring leans toward summer here in Illinois, I’ve been thinking about a few of the transitions I’ve endured over the years. … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, Christopher Cudworth, cross country, death, healthy aging
Tagged elburn illinois, lancaster pennsylvania, Let It Be, moving, seneca falls new york, step on the gas and wipe that tear away, the Beatles abbey road, time to move again, you never give me your money, you only give me your funny paper
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On poaching, road rage and political consequences
Yesterday while out birding on a country road west of our home, I turned the corner where the asphalt surface turns to gravel and spied a pile of Canada geese scattered in the snow. Some hunter must have exceeded the … Continue reading
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