Category Archives: We Run and Ride Every Day

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

And now, a biblically scary message for our times about tarsnakes and running and riding

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth “All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.” –Theodor Adorno “You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re … Continue reading →

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The harsh beauty of empiric data on running and riding

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth Cyclists and runners spend so much time covering the landscape in their endurance pursuits that it can be easy to bypass the empiric data generated by their travels. These days that empiric data landscape is easier than … Continue reading →

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It all seems to come together

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth Somewhere in the ancient history of the area now known as Southwest Wisconsin, oceans once covered the earth. The seas that covered much of central North America left deep layers of silica and shells that hardened into … Continue reading →

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Coming full circle with The Wright Stuff

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth From the top of a ridge in Governor Dodge State Park 45 miles west of Madison, Wisconsin, you can see the Milky Way quite clear on a cloudless summer night. The stars that cover the rest of … Continue reading →

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We Run and Ride. Short and Sweet.

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth Sometimes we don’t have time to do the workouts we’d like to do. The commute home takes more time than we’d like. The dog needs a walk, or the litter box stinks. Kids need to be fed … Continue reading →

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We run and ride and swim. And then we drink. Sometimes too much.

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth In the summer before starting college the group of guys that ran together and hung together began plotting a major league blowout party for an end-of-summer sendoff. We all got blotto. Drunk. Falling down stupefied. And maybe … Continue reading →

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August Answers

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

August Answers By Christopher Cudworth There’s an audio joke that involves chirping crickets. Often it implies that the person who has been asked a question does not know the answer. Instead we hear “silence” or the sound of chirping crickets, … Continue reading →

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Let’s hear it for volunteers, without whom our races would not happen

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth They get up even earlier than you do on race day. They attend a pre-race meeting where the police give them instructions on how to protect the intersections to which they are assigned. They drive, bike or … Continue reading →

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You never dream it could happen to you

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth It doesn’t always pay to try to relate dreams to others. It seems you can never fully capture the weirdness and reality of a dream when you describe it to someone else in conversation. Yet sometimes the … Continue reading →

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Training hard when you run and ride? Not in comparison to a crappy summer job.

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Monte Wehrkamp in response to a shared post by Christopher Cudworth Today’s article begins with an hilarious post from a blogger at the site: It’sAlwaysSunnyRunning.com. I read her posts regularly and this one was particularly funny and true, about … Continue reading →

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