Category Archives: running

“I’m a creature of habit. I just have too many habits.”

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

I texted the title of this blog to my wife this morning. It stemmed from the discovery of my main set of car keys in the pocket of a jacket I’d hung on the rack in the front room. I … Continue reading →

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When you’re so popular it hurts

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This past Sunday my wife and I took a trip to meet up with friends at the Morton Arboretum, one of the Chicago area’s most popular places to commune with nature and frolic among the trees. We were attending one … Continue reading →

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Get fit while lying down (and be like Emma)

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

I follow American steeplechaser Emma Coburn on Instagram. She even provided answers to her success through an interview published on this blog.  This week she posted a hyper little demonstration of how she uses a fitness band to improve the … Continue reading →

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What if you knew this was the last workout you’d ever do?

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Here comes Halloween, the night when thoughts of death and hauntings swirl around the minds of millions of people. As a Hallmark Holiday, it may not be taken all that seriously. But as a seasonal celebration with pagan and religious … Continue reading →

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By invitation only: Sweet Season #3

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Season heating up Having come off a speedy team performance in a quadrangular meet against Augustana College, University of Northern Iowa and the University of Iowa, in which we lost only to UNI, our squad was fired up going into … Continue reading →

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The question for men of a certain age

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Doctors get to ask strange questions and do a number of odd things. Sticking a finger up the bum of a male subject to check out the prostate gland is just one of many medically invasive things doctors need to … Continue reading →

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A taste of bittersweet early in the sweet season

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This is the second installment of eight blogs about a cross country season forty years ago. On Thursdays, I will recount a most significant period in life, a senior year in college. That’s when hard work paid off, self-belief took hold … Continue reading →

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Shedding the shoe condoms

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Earlier this week I got up to run and realized that my full-length orthotics were still in a pair of shoes perched in the back of the car my wife drove to early morning swimming. I thought about that for … Continue reading →

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One Sweet Season: Volume One

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This will be the first in an installment of eight blogs about a cross country season forty years ago. Over the next eight Thursdays, I will recount a most significant period in life,  entering a senior year in college. That’s … Continue reading →

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When things are looking up, don’t look down

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

I once had a boss who told me, “I like you a lot more when you’re smiling.” Now, the circumstances surrounding my resting dour face were not exactly common. So let’s set the stage. I’d just started a job as … Continue reading →

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