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Tag Archives: cycling
Enjoying a bloom of fitness
By Christopher Cudworth Athletic fitness, like the bloom of a brilliant flower, often lasts a few days, or at best a few weeks, before the peak fitness must fade. The rhythm of blooms Our bodies, like annual or even perennial … Continue reading
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Tagged biking, bloom of fitness, Candide, cycling, distance running, European workers, half-marathon, long distance running, marathon running, peak fitness, peak training, Philadelphia, PR, PRs, riding, running, running and riding, setting a PR, training, VP of Marketing, we run and ride
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Your sock drawer may be key to success in life
By Christopher Cudworth Many years back there was a Thorlo sock campaign in which people ran marathons in their Thorlo socks as a means to prove the quality of the Thorlo brand. Thorlos really are a superior sock. The thickest … Continue reading
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Tagged aerobic sports, athletic socks, blasphemy, Catholic, Catholic Storm Troopers, Christopher Cudworth, cycling, cycling accidents, inquisition, Lance Armstrong, legend, marathon, organizing your sock drawer, running shoes, sock drawer, spanish inquisition, tarsnakes, Thorlo, Thorlos, we run and ride
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Ever been really lost on the run or ride? Or in life?
By Christopher Cudworth If you’re a runner or a cyclist, or even a swimmer who gets out into open water, you have likely experienced the awful feeling of getting lost. Out in the woods It doesn’t happen that often for … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Cudworth, coldplay, coldplay lyrics, cycling, cycling psychology, distance running, doesn't mean I'm lost, feel less lost, fitness, God, helping others, just because I'm losing, lost and found, prodigal son, recovery, rescued, road biking, salvation, saved, sports psychology, swimming back to shore, we run and ride
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Running, riding and the fine art of creatively bitching up a storm.
By Christopher Cudworth Not every run and ride is a soul-lifting testament to the joys of running and riding. Some days just feel like crap physically, and other days your mind just isn’t into it. It seems sometimes that no … Continue reading
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Tagged bitch, bitching, cycling, distance training, Fine art of bitching, it pays to bitch, John Lennon
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A 50 mph descent is a bit of a rush
By Christopher Cudworth Watching the Tour de France race go through and up and over the island of Corsica has been an exciting start to the 100th Tour. Corsica from all angles is alternately rocky, woodsy and beachy. That makes … Continue reading
Orange Crush redux
By Christopher Cudworth Ask me why I take pictures of things run over on the road and I’ll share the reason that the road is a transient place, its surface is ever changing, and there is something symbolic about that … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, anxious, cycling, fitness test, goal-setting, I've got my spine I've got my orange crush, long distance running, Meryl Streep, Orange Crush, R.E.M, REM lyrics, riding, road kill, running, tarsnakes, Time magazine, University of Kentucky, zen buddhism, zen thought
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Screaming serenity
As it crept into the vernacular as an enticing notion of mind control, the idea of zen thought has been twisted and turned into just about anything a person wants to call it. The Urban Dictionary defines zen this way: One … Continue reading
Posted in Tarsnakes, We Run and Ride Every Day
Tagged aerobic sports, anxiety, art of zen, biking, Christopher Cudworth, corporate fitness, cycling, cycling psychology, Depression, distance running, faith, half marathoners, half-marathon, health, marathon, marathoners, patience, riding, runners, running, sports psychology, tarsnakes, we run and ride, zen, zen thought
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A ride with a daughter on Father’s Day
By Christopher Cudworth “I might like to go for a bike ride,” she told me. “Well, your mother’s bike is pretty sweet,” I replied. “It’s a Trek Navigator 2.0. A nice trail bike.” We lost her mother to cancer in … Continue reading
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Tagged A ride with a daughter, bike riding, cycling, daughters, Father's Day, Schwinn, schwinn varsity, trek navigator
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What does a smashed turtle on the road really mean?
At the tail end of a pleasant 25 mile bike ride this past Saturday morning, I was feeling good about the new bike fit and riding with a pair of riders who happened up behind me at a stop light … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, bike riding, cancer, cycling, evolution, holy crap, hummingbirds, koran, Noah's Ark, painted turtle, pre-existing condition, random, random decisions, religion, riding, Road rage, running, smashed turtles, snapping turtle, Texas, yucatan
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