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50 Years of Running: Summer running, or not
Coming out of spring track into the summer of 1972, I was excited to get back to playing baseball. The Elburn Babe Ruth team had a fantastically fun team the year before. We traveled to small towns like Hampshire, Huntley … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, Christopher Cudworth, college, competition, cross country, cycling, cycling the midwest
Tagged 1972, Babe Ruth league, baseball, baseball injury, chewing tobacco, elburn illinois, field of dreams, girls, riding bikes, stealing home, summer baseball, summer fun, summer running
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50 years of running: The appeal of discipline
As a kid I wasn’t happy about being told what to do. My father was a bit authoritarian in his approach, and something in me always fought back. Classic father-son stuff, really. Nothing that millions of kids in the 60s … Continue reading
Posted in cross country, running
Tagged baseball, discipline, kaneland high school, Lancaster New Era newspaper, running
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Apple tree wisdom
I had a best friend while growing up in Pennsylvania who lived in a modest home at the center of a golf course south of Lancaster. We did everything together from playing sports to learning about girls as we entered … Continue reading
Posted in running, Uncategorized
Tagged apple tree, apple tree wisdom, baseball, baseball team, growing up in Pennsylvania, gym class, tart apples
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I keep smiling. It’s the only way to live.
At the age of five years old, I was in the backyard of another kid that would become my best friend through the age of twelve. Our mothers were in the front yard talking about how we might get along … Continue reading
Posted in bike accidents, bike crash, bike wobble, blood on the highway, Christopher Cudworth, competition, cross country, cycling, cycling the midwest, cycling threats, running
Tagged baseball, basketball practice, bike crash, competition, concussion, cycling crash, fly ball, kickball, softball, sports injuries, sports injury, torn ACL, water on the knee
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Sweet Season: Bringing it all home
Volume one • Volume two • Volume three • Volume Four • Volume five Volume six Volume seven Going into the last meet of the 1978 season, we felt as if we were still capable of doing big things at nationals. Our highest team … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, Al Carius, Augustana College, baseball, buckminster fuller, business, Christianity, college, college girlfriend, competition, creativity, family, gay rights, godspell, health, homosexuality, identity, judaism, love, Luther College, Luther college cross country, NCAA cross country, NCAA Division III, North Central College cross country, paul olson, politics, PR, racing, religion, school, sex, sports, sweet season, tolerance, training
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The question of whether we are getting better in the long run
By Christopher Cudworth At the age of 9 there is nothing more that I wanted on earth than to make the cut with the Local 285 baseball team on which my older brother had played. Tryouts went well enough, but when … Continue reading
A love/hate relationship with track & field
By Christopher Cudworth Sometimes you don’t choose a sport, it chooses you. Such was the case with track & field. As a kid the track was a strange and foreign environment, mostly because we all ran on cinders years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Tarsnakes, We Run and Ride Every Day
Tagged 2-mile, baseball, baseballs, cross country, distance running track, evil demons, gym class, gym teacher, Jim Cudworth, love hate relationship, love hate relationships, running track, tarsnake, tarsnakes, track, track and field, track coach, wrestling coach
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Running with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Race relations remain an uncomfortable topic in America. Our first black President promised to make things easier, but in many ways that promise cannot be fulfilled by one man or one change in the political landscape. It takes all of … Continue reading
Posted in We Run and Ride Every Day
Tagged 400 meters, anger, Aurora, baseball, basketball, black athletes, confidence, country club, Elgin, forgiveness, formula for success, Illinois, indoor track, integration, Jr., Lancaster, Luther College, Martin Luther King, Moline, Pennsylvania, prince, Quad Cities, race relations, racial segregation, racism, Rhodesia, runners, running, schoolyard, track and field, white athletes
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