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Category Archives: nature
50 Years of Running: Closing time
All of us who run know the difference between a good race and a bad race. There are empirical factors such as time and place by which we measure our efforts. Yet even these are subjective depending on conditions such … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, competition, cycling, duathlon, God, mental health, nature, race pace, racing peak, running, running shoes, sex, triathlon
Tagged birdwatching, closing time, cold lights of reality, finish your whisky or beer, frogs, kiss that frog, runner, running, third eye blind, tinicum, van kampen merritt
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50 Years of Running: The homely hayseed and love
Finding out from a key player and trusted friend on the management side that the marketing department where I worked in Philadelphia was not fulfilling expectations didn’t surprise me. There were great people on the team, who were doing some … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Christopher Cudworth, competition, Depression, fear, foregiveness, gay marriage, life and death, love, mental health, nature
Tagged adhd, calling someone a hayseed, discipline, haggard runner, hayseed, patience and boredom, runner, telling someone they're homely, training, work discipline
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50 Years of Running: Love letters and tell-alls
During all those weeks and months away in Philadelphia, I kept up a steady stream of correspondence with Linda back in Geneva. She kept all those letters, and I found them in our house years later. In the week after … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Green-eyed redemption
Coming off the Miami weekend in January of 1983, I got caught in the rain during the first run back and came home feeling dragged out, with cold symptoms haunting me all the next day. “I’m resting tonight to see … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, competition, life and death, love, mental health, nature, race pace, racing peak, running, running shoes
Tagged doctor my eyes, love affairs, love outside marriage, Luther College, no regrets, runner's edge, Saucon dixons, self-actualization, sex and sin, sex outside of marriage, ultimate compliment
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50 Years of Running: Ringing in 1983
After a sweet Christmas in Chicago with Linda, I returned to life in Paoli with an eye on starting the New Year the right way. A long run. “I ran a very relaxed but determined two hours today,” I wrote. … Continue reading
Posted in love, mental health, nature, race pace, racing peak, running, sex
Tagged acting the fool, adhd, artist, biscayne bay florida, fantasies, fantasy girl, having sex, helluva illustration, illustration, lover, miami beach, needing sympathy, Paoli Pennsylvania, race of the americas miami florida, sex, sex on the beach, writer
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50 Years of Running: Hilarity on the move
As any runner knows, it is conversations that help make the miles go by in training. The ribbing and joking, the racing tales and discussions about dating, and more. These are the graces that get you through hours on the … Continue reading
Posted in 10K, 13.1, anxiety, college, competition, love, mental health, nature, race pace, racing peak, running, running shoes
Tagged Christopher Cudworth, hilarity on the run, long runs, long slow distance, movie director, movies, Nike running shoes, porn movies, porn star, running, word games
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50 Year of Running: What drives a young man?
Starting up my new running journal was a strange feeling, but the timing was interesting. New apartment in a new city. All-new running routes. On August 12, 1982 I wrote: “Two nights ago the run went marvelous, physiologically. After having … Continue reading
Posted in 400 meter intervals, 400 workouts, addiction, Christopher Cudworth, college, competition, cycling, healthy aging, mental health, mental illness, nature, race pace, racing peak, riding, running, running shoes, sex
Tagged becoming a runner, commitment, commitments in life, dating, dating life, falling in love, love and relationships, personal relationships, psychiatrist on NPR, running, she's a nurse, tarsnakes, the 5th dimension, wedding bell blues, won't you marry me bill
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50 Years of Running: The winter of my discontent
When the temperature hit -26 degrees on January 10 of 1982, I’d already been inside for two or three days, and was getting cabin fever. Even girlfriend company didn’t help. I was stir crazy and needed to get out for … Continue reading
Posted in competition, cross country, fear, God, mental health, mental illness, nature, running
Tagged bald eagle, cabin fever, college girlfriend, Depression, ex girlfriend, fit of depression, Girlfriend, hope, inspiration, luther girl, subzero temperatures, wind chills, winter of my discontent
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50 Years of Running: Life tectonics
By the winter of 1981, I’d completed much of the fictional book Admissions that I’d written on the train while commuting to Chicago. One of the main characters in the book was a professor that invented a concept called Life … Continue reading
Posted in 10K, college, competition, cross country, love, mental health, nature, running, running shoes
Tagged admissions, andrew mccarthy, Christopher Cudworth, Decorah Iowa, distance running, jacqueline bisset, life tectonics, Luther College, plate tectonic theory, rob lowe, running, sex and running, the movie class, theory of evolution
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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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