Category Archives: We Run and Ride Every Day

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

Designed by air

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

During a visit to the Chicago Auto Show this past weekend, we were entering the Toyota arena while a speaker laid into the benefits of some sort of concept or luxury sports couple gleaming in the bright lights. He was … Continue reading →

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Is Classic Rock really good for you?

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

In the early scenes of the movie Silver Linings Playbook, the character played by Bradley Cooper has recently been checked out of a treatment center for mental illness. His anxiety remains at a boiling point. When he walks into his … Continue reading →

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On Sports Illustrated, Victoria’s Secret, tattoos and other not so secret displays of self

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

As a devout liberal and Progressive thinker, I’m all for people being and doing what they want with their bodies. Yet something in me recoils at the manufactured imagery of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. Or for that matter, the airbrushed models in … Continue reading →

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The things that go through our head when climbing a really big hill

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Yeah. Our brains do weird things to us.

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Seeing your way to better training and racing

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Between my junior year and senior year in college, I shaved an ugly 70s-version beard, cropped my hair from shoulder length to something more human than Sasquatch and got contact lenses to replace a pair of Coke-bottle glasses that weighed about … Continue reading →

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Why entering a race sometimes just doesn’t register

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

The Horribly Hilly is an immensely popular ride in southern Wisconsin. Event demand is so strong organizers hold a lottery each year to determine who gets in. A few years back it cost $10 just to enter this lottery. Back … Continue reading →

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Omigod there’s a body in there!

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

Well the Christian blogger lady got her day in the sun. She stood up for purity of mind in her fashion. Refusing to wear yoga pants without something to cover up her butt is noble indeed. She’s got a right … Continue reading →

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10 ways to test whether you could you survive being a runner in the 70s

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

For better or worse, the sport of distance running has changed quite a bit since the Running Boom first took off in the early 1970s. That’s when Frank Shorter won the Olympic Marathon and the world of jogging got its … Continue reading →

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A little less fear of a cold winter and the blue moon

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

My record for running in the cold is twenty seven below zero. My eyes froze shut that day. Had to stop and thaw them out with warm hands pulled from thick mittens. That run only lasted two miles. it was … Continue reading →

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Oh that’s Super. Just Super.

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Christopher Cudworth

The Super Bowl felt like a giant convergence of social memes last night. While it’s fun to watch the game, it also captures the contradictory force of nature America has become.  The headline of today’s blog has a bit of a cynical … Continue reading →

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