Category Archives: marathon

We all have mountains to climb

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Perhaps you’ve experienced moments in life as well where the activities that once dominated your entire persona somehow feel different. It can happen all of a sudden, or it can take time to set in. Perhaps you achieve a goal and move on. Or perhaps it’s much more subtle than that. You simply share more time with different kinds of people. Continue reading →

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A childish fascination with endurance training and bodily functions

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

In order to get your Monday off to a rollickingly childish start, you are invited to click and view this scene from an Austin Powers movie in which our hero engages in a prolonged urination session. Yes, it’s childish. And … Continue reading →

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The devolution of the Clif Bar (and other things we eat)

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Obviously I use the term “devolution” loosely in today’s blog title. Technically the word has political roots. As in: “the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.” Well, the … Continue reading →

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Just a few ways that Strava can make you crazy

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth
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Resurrections

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Those of us who run and ride do know what it’s like to rise from death to run and ride again. Or at least we feel dead some days. Aching legs. Ass numb from riding 80 miles on a hot day in August. And yet, when you get moving a little things often improve. You come back from the dead eventually. 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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10 Reasons Why You Should Go Out and Buy New Running Shoes

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth
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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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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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