Category Archives: running

A night in tune with The White Album

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

The Arcada Theater on the east end of downtown St. Charles, Illinois is run by Ron Onesti and Onesti Entertainment. That organization is the portal to every aging rock band in the universe. Last night a group assembled by the … Continue reading →

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Menstruation chronicles

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

As a young runner living in the City of Chicago during the early 1980s, I met a woman through track workouts at the downtown Northwestern University cinder track next to Lake Shore Drive. After scoping her out the entire workout, … Continue reading →

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Taking a pass on the Turkey Trot this year

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

The annual rite of running the Turkey Trot in my former hometown of Batavia is going by the wayside this year. For one thing, my knee is slightly swollen from the hit it took by a yellow lab at the … Continue reading →

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Another little doggone injury

Posted on November 24, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

2019 has been a doggone tough year for me in terms of strange little injuries. But yesterday an incident took place that was a doggone fluke. Our dog Lucy loves to run and play at a large local dog park … Continue reading →

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A walk through the old running grounds

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

Yesterday was a wonderfully dank November day here in Illinois. I needed to pick up a prescription at the Meijer store in Geneva and drove up to the corner of Route 38 and Randall Road. Our dog Lucy came along … Continue reading →

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Dealing at the dog park

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

Our sweet dog Lucy is a puppy-level bundle of canine energy. She’s seven months old and loves running because she’s a 50% pitty mix with border collie, box and beagle mixed in. She has a nose for fun and isn’t … Continue reading →

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History in the making

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

The day after the 2019 Illinois state cross country championship, I turned to the website of my former employer, the Daily Herald, to find a story by Michael Eaken of the record-setting run by a Hersey high school senior Josh … Continue reading →

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A quick run across the frozen face of Greenland

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

Billions of years ago, a massive single land mass contained all the continents we know today. Through force of internal pressures such as volcanism, the shove and pull of plate tectonics and the mechanism of sea floor spreading, all the … Continue reading →

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Dawn of the Amish Zombie Rumspringa

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

I decided to take the back roads on the return trip from my college reunion in Decorah, Iowa. A simple tap of Directions on Google Maps set up a route through Lancaster and Platteville in southwest Wisconsin. My childhood was … Continue reading →

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Commuting through time

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth

I first accepted a job in the City of Chicago when I was twenty-one years old. I’d already worked a year as an admissions counselor traveling all over the state of Illinois, and that was rough. So when a man … Continue reading →

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