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Category Archives: healthy senior
50 Years of Running: Transfer of Excellence
During my early thirties, I came up with a personal motivational concept called “transfer of excellence.” The idea centered around taking the best things you’ve learned from doing one thing and applying it to another. I wanted to carry over … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, Christopher Cudworth, college, competition, cross country, death, healthy aging, healthy senior, life and death, nature, running
Tagged artist's life, ernest hemingway writing style, ethics, hemingway prose, hunting, Kenny Moore, life as a writer, life as an artist, paper thin, pathos, running excellence, transfer of excellence, writer's life
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Racing along with ease and joy
Yesterday on October 16, I competed in the Frank Lloyd Wright Races in Oak Park, Illinois. This was a return adventure to an event I won twice back in ’83 and ’84. That was 39 years ago. I ran 32:00 … Continue reading
Posted in 10K, aging, anxiety, Christopher Cudworth, competition, cycling, cycling the midwest, healthy aging, healthy senior, race pace, racing peak, running, running shoes, track and field, training, TRAINING PEAKS, triathlon, we run and ride
Tagged competition, cycling, cycling the midwet, healthy aging, healthy senior, nike vaporfly, race pace, racing peak, running efficiency, running shoes, we run and ride
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50 Years of Running: Eighth-grade realities
Despite my love of laughter and being considered funny if I could make that happen, my anxious nature also meant grappling with a conflicted mind. I loved making friends but worried about what they thought of me. I worked hard … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, anxiety, Christopher Cudworth, competition, cross country, fear, healthy aging, healthy senior, life and death, love, mental health, nature, running, running shoes, trail running
Tagged 50 years of running, assholes, assholes by aaron james, bitches, book about assholes, eighth-grade wisdom, philosophy
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50 Years of Running: First steps to clarity
Coming off the two semesters that my friends called “Cud’s weird year,” I arrived home at the farmhouse where our family lived for a year and took a hard look in the mirror. My hair was so thick and long … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, college, competition, cross country, healthy senior, race pace, racing peak, steeplechase, track and field, training
Tagged 1970s sexy secretary, 1978, cross country, ken popejoy, lust, olympic stain, secretarial pool, summer job, summer running, summer training, summer work
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Going fast and built to last
The cycling season has ramped up kind of slow for me this year. For the last few seasons, we’ve gone to a triathlon camp that kicks fitness into gear. Like most athletes, I need that sustained period of training to … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, Christopher Cudworth, climbing, college, competition, cross country, cycling, cycling the midwest, healthy aging, healthy senior, it never gets easier you just go faster, riding, running, triathlete, triathlon, triathlons
Tagged cycling, false flats, olympic distance triathlon, riding, runner, running, time trial, time trials
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On the flip side, I don’t have to prove myself at the family picnic
Yesterday I wrote a short lament about the way sports consumes so much of our lives if we let it. That’s not a total regret. I’ve gained quite a bit from sports, including the aptitudes of perseverance when called upon, … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, competition, healthy aging, healthy senior, mental health, running, triathlete, triathlon, triathlons, werunandride
Tagged caregiving, carpe diem, competition, distance running, flip side, Hamilton, Napolean Dynamite, proving yourself at the family picnic, reconciliation, regrets, riding, swimming, tarsnakes, uncle rico, woulda coulda shoulda
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The fabric of life and a sense of home
I’m substitute teaching at the high school a block from our former home in Geneva, Illinois. The streets look the same as they always did. The giant cottonwood tree on the corner of the block was a favorite waiting place … Continue reading
Posted in 400 meter intervals, 400 workouts, aging, competition, healthy aging, healthy senior, running
Tagged fabric of life, outdoor track, run, runner, running, sense of home, track and field
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Meet Mike Savage, one of my favorite Tri-Guys
The first time I got to know Mike Savage we were together riding on a long climb near Phoenix, Arizona during a weeklong Experience Triathlon spring training camp. We’d already done a couple rides that week along with a run … Continue reading
Life is a long letter being written one day at a time
The letter was written seven weeks into my senior year in college, the season in which our cross country team would go on to place second in the NCAA Division III championships. Continue reading