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Jaw-dropping, grossout special edition: swimming in public pools and lakes can make you sick

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This week I bumped into two separate stories about swimming in public pools. Both made me feel sick about it. One was an hilariously disgusting piece created by The Onion, America’s satiric news media outlet. Click through to make yourself … Continue reading →

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This falling in love thing

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

Five years ago this weekend (or so) I met the woman to whom I am now married. We connected through the dating app Fitness-Singles.com but we could just as well have met on a local bike path. The FS website showed … Continue reading →

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On being Lawson Craddock, one tough kid

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

I’ve been watching the first few stages of the Tour de France. One of the first dramatic storylines is Lawson Craddock, the Houston, Texas kid riding his first Tour. During a stage of the race, he was unfortunate to strike … Continue reading →

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On being alive

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

That’s me hanging out during our 4th of July family get-together yesterday. It was hot outside, as it should be on the 4th of July. Before the party started, I mowed a rectangle in our lawn in hopes of preparing … Continue reading →

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At long last, a swimming breakthrough

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

It hasn’t been easy, learning to swim again. Three or four years ago the process began with 25-yard gasping efforts in a tiny little pool within the X-Sport fitness facility. Then came strained sessions at the Master’s Swim program held … Continue reading →

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Coffee clutching

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

A true confession: I don’t drink coffee. Never have. Never will. Don’t like the taste. Didn’t like it forty years ago in college. Still don’t like it today. Yet last week while driving home from a gym workout, I picked … Continue reading →

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Sandals vs. orthotics

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

During the early 1980s, I illustrated a book on running biomechanics that was authored by Dr. John Durkin (deceased) and famed running coach Joe Newton of York high school (also deceased). Durkin was a podiatrist to some world-class athletes including … Continue reading →

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A social kind of brain injury

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

In recent years news has come forward that playing professional football in the NFL can produce severe brain injury. The result is a condition, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, that is abbreviated as CTE. The brain becomes so concussed after multiple collisions … Continue reading →

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No good deed goes unpunished

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

  Last evening I was cycling down a country thoroughfare called Bliss Road (you’ll see the irony soon) during the opening miles of a 31-mile ride. The road crosses a bridge over Interstate 88 and one lane is closed to … Continue reading →

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Even flat turtles have their day in the sun

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Christopher Cudworth

This morning I ran what might possibly be the slowest three miles I’ve done in a long time. Along the way, I chanced to look down and see a flattened turtle on the gravel shoulder of the road. It bugs … Continue reading →

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