Category Archives: swimming

Meet the Mink

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Christopher Cudworth

Years ago while out birdwatching, a real, live mink climbed a tree and sat there looking at me. At the time, I did not know mink could climb trees. Even with my keen interest in nature, there are still a lot … Continue reading →

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You smell like pool

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Christopher Cudworth

Everyone that swims knows the feeling. Coming out of the water wrapped in the veil of chlorine. It’s true when you’re a child and it remains true through adulthood. It’s ostensibly a clean smell, but who’s to say? Public pools, … Continue reading →

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Baby’s got back

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

This swimming thing is turning out to be a blessing on a number of fronts. As the combination of learned form and increased endurance add up, it is finally possible to enjoy the experience of being in the pool. Up … Continue reading →

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Circumstance sometimes really can make the man or woman

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Between the sophomore and junior year of my college experience, summer jobs were hard to find. The economy was sputtering in the late 1970s due to the centrifugal force of world politics and America’s sagging malaise coming off the exhaustion … Continue reading →

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If a Runner, a Cyclist, a Swimmer and a Triathlete were running for President

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Welcome to the Presidential debate hosted by the WTF Network. Tonight’s debate will feature our four leading candidates are all known for their respective sports. We have a Runner, A Cyclist, a Swimmer and a Triathlete at their respective podiums … Continue reading →

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The view from the hospital

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Ever since 2000, the year my father had his quintuple bypass surgery, followed by his stroke two years later, and the death of my mother in 2005, my life’s journey has involved visits to quite a few hospital beds. That’s … Continue reading →

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Porta Pottie politics

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Everyone knows, or at least they should by now after years of Porta Pottie use, that throwing garbage of any sort into the waste area can mess up the system of cleaning them out. Yet there are people who simply don’t care. In fact they go beyond simply not caring and throw whatever they like in there. Continue reading →

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Rust never sleeps, but neither do swimmers

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

It’s been hot outside and Sunday presented an opportunity to perhaps gather our swim gear and take one last trip to Centennial Beach in Naperville. But by the time we go home from riding and a meetup with friends at … Continue reading →

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It takes courage to go slow sometimes

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

One of the principal lessons in distance training over the years came in the most unexpected way. I had moved out to the Philadelphia area for work when I was 23 years old, and went looking for a group of … Continue reading →

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For this neutrino, it’s sink or swim time

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Last weekend the workout plan included all three disciplines, the run, ride and swim. Saturday was a relaxed hour run in a forest preserve called Herrick Lake. The preserve is a mixed habitat preserve with limestone gravel trails circling through deep … Continue reading →

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