Category Archives: We Run and Ride Every Day

These are the main posts. The big, thought-provoking, original ideas about running and riding.

Let’s hear it for the parents

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Over the last few months I’ve been going through layers of family history. Finally getting to the bottom of some of the deep stacks of stuff one builds up through years of marriage. All of us need to do this … Continue reading →

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Just a few ways that Strava can make you crazy

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth
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On becoming a better runner, achieving it, and on we go

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Scott Fink-Finowicki is a young man who works in sales and is returning to running after a period away from the sport due to injury and getting started in his career. It’s been an interesting return to the sport, because … Continue reading →

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Resurrections

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Those of us who run and ride do know what it’s like to rise from death to run and ride again. Or at least we feel dead some days. Aching legs. Ass numb from riding 80 miles on a hot day in August. And yet, when you get moving a little things often improve. You come back from the dead eventually. Continue reading →

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Running and riding from here to eternity

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Last night on the way out of a networking event, I was walking along with an associate toward our cars. We both looked up at the night sky. I remarked that the big planet in the western sky might be … Continue reading →

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Running head on into your personal brand

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

For the last two years I’ve written this blog, my objective has been to engage readers with original, hopefully knowledgeable insights on running and riding. The tagline is “original thoughts on running and riding.” And some swimming. Some of the … Continue reading →

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Commemorating 50 Years of Luther College Women’s Athletics

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

In 1975 when I enrolled as a freshman at Luther College, the very first two women signed up to compete in cross country. At the time I had no idea that women’s sports at the college had only started 10 years … Continue reading →

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It’s a cold, cold world and that’s snot funny

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Sometime late yesterday afternoon I choked a bit on a section of Clif Bar. Immediately after my throat felt funny. I’d upset the equilibrium somehow… By evening there was a familiar tingling in my nose that told me a cold … Continue reading →

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Running and riding through personal history

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

I belong to XSport, a fitness club with two locations within 5 miles of my house, one in Batavia where I live and one in St. Charles, just up the road. The St. Charles location is on Randall Road, one … Continue reading →

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That swimming thing? Hasn’t been going that well. Now it will.

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Picking up a sport that you did as a kid can be one of the most humbling enterprises in the world. When I went back to playing soccer as an adult after coaching kids for 10 years it was shocking … Continue reading →

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