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Education. Presentation. Inspiration.
This post is part of a continuing series of chapters to be included in a book titled Competition’s Son. Hunting for a job when you desperately need one is never fun. If you’re old enough to think back to the … Continue reading
Posted in 10K, Christopher Cudworth, competition, mental health, running
Tagged adhd, attention deficit disorder, audio visual, bad robot, Ben linus, bien trucha, cover letters, dukane audio visual, education, employment advertising, evangeline lily, inspiration, job hunting, john locke, josh holloway, mac computers, market competition, marketing, marketing campaign, newspaper industry, on top of your game, presentation, public relations, sayid jarrah, terry o'quinn, TV show Lost
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Whatever suits you
In the spring of 2007, toward the end of a seven-year tenure at the Daily Herald, I was freelancing with a marketing agency run by a guy named Vince. My role was serving as a creative director of sorts, writing … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Christopher Cudworth, Depression, running
Tagged adhd, agency, anxiety disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, biblical literalism, conquering fear, daily herald, distance running, fashion, fear, generalized anxiety disorder, lobster dinner, marketing, men's suits, men's wearhouse, pat o'rahilly, running, S&K menswear, suit and tie, whatever suits you
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A Sprint to Respectability
The Naperville Sprint Triathlon is the first real triathlon I participated in ten years ago with my wife Sue. We’d met in July of 2013, gone riding and running together right away, but then she had a bike accident (her … Continue reading
Posted in 13.1, 400 meter intervals, 400 workouts, 5K, aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, anxiety, bike accidents, bike crash, Christopher Cudworth, competition, cycling, friendship, IRONMAN, love, PEAK EXPERIENCES, race pace, racing peak, riding, running, swimming, Tarsnakes, triathlons
Tagged Christopher Cudworth, competition, cycling, friendship, girlfriends, naperville sprint triathlon, naperville triathlon, race pace, running, sprint triathlon, triathlete, triathlon, triathlons
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An unpleasant start to an ultimately pleasant triathlon
Open-water swimming is one of life’s acquired joys. Unless one grows up swimming in ponds, lakes, or oceans it takes a bit of practice to get used to the idea of climbing into the water and swimming over whatever depths … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Christopher Cudworth, cycling, Depression, fear, mental health, PEAK EXPERIENCES, race pace, racing peak, riding, running, swimming
Tagged christophercudworth, coaching, olympic distance triathlon, pleasant prairie triathlon, runner, running, triathlete, triathlon, werunandride
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50 Years of Running: Cataclysmic convergence
My competitive instincts had not abated much in my early forties, but one quickly learns as a caregiver that being competitive is not the answer to every problem. In fact, it constitutes an answer to few problems. It doesn’t help … Continue reading
Posted in 10K, aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, Christopher Cudworth, competition, fear, foregiveness, life and death, running, we run and ride
Tagged 360 degree review, adhd, cancer, cancer cells, cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy, Christopher Cudworth, competition, competitive instincts, competitor, daily herald, distance running, gynecological oncology, hospice, life and death, newspaper industry, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prognosis, sponsorships, stroke, stroke victim, surgery, work performance
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50 Years of Running: Going Big Time
After the 9/11 tragedy rocked just about everything in American life, people looked for normalcy just about any way they could find it. At the same time, the newspaper industry in which I worked was getting slammed right and left … Continue reading
Posted in adhd, aging, Christopher Cudworth, coaching, competition, cross country, running
Tagged audit bureau of circulation, big ticket reading project, cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy, Christopher Cudworth, circulation, daily herald, life, life experience, literacy, newspaper circulation, newspaper industry, newspapers, ovarian cancer, runner, running
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50 Years of Running: When the shit really did hit the fan
Back in college days, I became a big Warren Zevon fan. I dug into his albums because I liked the twisted lyrics and sad, crazy, needy, nutso characters he created. Zevon later became friends with Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, one … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, competition, marathon, marathon training, race pace, running, running shoes, training, training for a marathon
Tagged 9/11, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, dick chency, Dick Cheney, distance running, george w bush, hunter s thompson, hunter thompson, lawyers guns and money, marathon, ralph steadman, september 11 attacks, the curse of lono, warren zevon, we run and ride
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50 Years of Running: Great joys and hard lessons
The day-to-day joy of writing full-time for a living was not lost on me. I truly loved writing columns and found it fascinating to edit national columnists’ work from all sorts of political perspectives. As editorial writers, our job was … Continue reading
Posted in adhd, anxiety, Christopher Cudworth, college, competition, mental health, running
Tagged 1500 meter runner, ann coulter, cal thomas, daily herald, family owned newspapers, George Will, how the internet changed the world, molly ivins, newspapers, racing, runner, running, the arrival of the internet, the newspaper business, Y2K
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50 Years of Running: Moving meditation
When I landed the job as an editorial writer for the Daily Herald, nothing excited me more than producing weekly columns for publication in the newspaper. I’d first done a column back in 1980 when I was just out of … Continue reading
Posted in aging, Christopher Cudworth, Depression, foregiveness, healthy senior, mental health, running
Tagged Christopher Cudworth, distance running, editorial writer, home schooling, homeschool, ideation, meditation, moving meditation, runner, running, triathlon, we run and ride, writer
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50 Years of Running: New situations, new locations
Starting the new job at the Daily Herald newspaper felt a bit like coming home again. But that wasn’t the only way that life felt like it was getting back to normal. The year that I joined Aspen Marketing we … Continue reading
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