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Category Archives: track and field
There’s a right way to go bananas in endurance sports
Given the fact that the “fruit” we call bananas is so common and inexpensive to buy, it is easy to take for granted that the Cavendish bananas commercially available in stores are a production miracle brought to the United States … Continue reading
Posted in 400 meter intervals, 400 workouts, competition, injury, marathon, marathon training, mental health, PEAK EXPERIENCES, race pace, racing peak, running, swimming, track and field, tri-bikes, triathlete, triathlon, triathlons
Tagged a right way to go bananas in endurance sports, bananas, bringing bananas to market, cavendish bananas, going bananas, going bananas in training, ironman triathlete, multisports, triathlete, triathlon, triathlon training
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A long line of strong women
Heading into last weekend I read that a distance runner named Letensenbet Gidey had run a world record 5000M time of 14:06 in a track meet in Valencia, Spain. I sat there for a moment and thought, “14:06. That means … Continue reading
On April and track and field
Ever since 1970, when I was an immensely skinny 8th-grader competing in track and field for the first time, April has been a vexation on my body and my soul. I too-well recall stripping off sweatpants to stand shivering in … Continue reading
Posted in track and field
Tagged april is the cruelest month, april snows, distance running, steeplechase, track, track and field
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A Burning Man of a different kind
My son Evan Cudworth was planning on attending The Burning Man event in August again this year. But it likely won’t happen. Even that brand of social distancing––rocking out in the Black Rock Desert–– is not enough social distance to … Continue reading
It's a bad time to be a nail-biter, but welcome to the club
I’m not proud of the fact that I’ve been biting my nails since I was a little kid. Even as an adult my fingernails are sometimes a ragged mess if I collapse into the nervous habit of chewing on them. … Continue reading
Posted in 10K, aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, anxiety, cycling, running, swimming, Tarsnakes, track and field
Tagged a real nail biter, biting your nails, cancer, cancer treatment, competition, competition in sports, coping mechanism, gnawing your fingers, life stress, nail biter, nail biting, ovarian cancer, running, stress
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Old School is New School. Never forget it.
This morning on the way to drop off our dog at daycare, I drove past the building that was the only high school in town back when I was a student in St. Charles, Illinois. By the time I was … Continue reading
The glory days are not always what you think they are
I got my gripe session about the travails of 2019 out of the way yesterday. Now it’s time to look ahead to 2020. Let’s spare each other the obvious cliches about “vision” and “seeing clearly.” I’m sure we’ll find plenty … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, Christopher Cudworth, competition, cycling, healthy aging, IRONMAN, swimming, Tarsnakes, track and field, triathlete, triathlon, triathlons, trolls
Tagged abu Ghraib, Bush-Cheney, cheating, cheating at golf, cheating marathons, christianity today, Donald Trump, driving golf carts on the greens, evangelical christian support for trump, glory days, growing bolder, Iraq, modern marilyn, Russia, saddam hussein, torture, trump foundation fraud, Trump university fraud, twitter, twitter trolls, wikileaks
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Menstruation chronicles
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
Posted in 10K, 400 meter intervals, bike accidents, bike crash, blood on the highway, Christopher Cudworth, running, track and field, training
Tagged amenorrhoea, arthroscopic surgery, astellas oncology, bad break, Chicago, Christopher Cudworth, city of chicago, downtown, getting your period, gynecological oncologist, gynecologist, gynecology, mary cain, menstruation, Nike, northwestern university, ovarian cancer, period, stress fracture, stress fractures, The Right Kind of Pride, wild little romance
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History in the making
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