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Tag Archives: injury
50 Years of Running: Competition’s Son and the power of a right arm
Nothing mattered more to me in elementary school than the playground. After sitting inside the classroom for a couple hours, we’d be released to go outside the do the things we loved. We played kickball on the macadam behind Willow … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, competition, cross country, injury
Tagged baseball injuries, competition, injury, sports
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50 Years of Running: Wonder Left
After the 800-mile season in cross country in the fall of ’78, it felt good to back off running twice-a-day. But then I sprained an ankle playing pickup basketball. So I was out of action completely for four days. I … Continue reading
All Dressed Up and staying home for the moment
I got out the Shop-Vac to clean up the stick shavings our dog left on the living room carpet last night. Somehow she snuck a ten-inch stick into the house without our noticing it, and chewed a big section off … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, injury
Tagged injury, lower back pain, sacrum, tweaking your back
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Wanted: dead or alive
Over a lifetime of athletics, I’ve been fairly fortunate to only break and tear a few things. But they’re starting to add up these days, and it’s got me thinking about how it all started, and where it’s going. The … Continue reading
Finding ways to focus on the positives
Three nights ago with the sprain still fresh below the ball of my foot, I awoke to the throb of pain and swelling. For a few minutes I tried to ignore it, but sleep wasn’t going to happen like that. … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, injury, Uncategorized
Tagged injury, positive thinking, sports injury
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Insane x insane=perfect for a Reality Show
By Christopher Cudworth So the sliver that tried to kill me may be gone, but its entry point into my system brought with it some funky microbe that remains unidentified and must be treated with utmost caution. The doctors only … Continue reading
Posted in We Run and Ride Every Day
Tagged antibiotics, blood pressure, Breaking Bad, Christopher Cudworth, cycling, cycling psychology, distance running, fitness, fuck it, health, heart rate, high blood pressure, home infusion, home infusions, infectious disease, injury, kidney function, long distance running, low blood pressure, runners, running, social disease, sports psychology, std, syringes, we run and ride
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Running and riding through grief, both real and imagined
Mental health experts and grief counselors have long advised that grief is an emotional phenomenon with several stages. The classic and operative model is one proposed by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross that states there are 5 stages of grief. Denial: Helps us … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 stages of grief, acceptance, ACL, ACL tear, anger, anxiety, blame, creativity, cures for depression, cycling death, cycling in, death, denial, Depression, depression treatment, epiphany, fear, forgiveness, grief, grieving, imagination, injury, injury prevention, relationship between exercise and depression, simple truths
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The tarsnake of being thankful for things that didn’t happen
Thanksgiving is about saying thanks for everything you have in life. Food. Family. Love. Relationships. Your road bike. A favorite pair of shoes. See, if you run and ride, your perspective gets a little skewed toward your favorite activities. Nothing wrong … Continue reading
Posted in Tarsnakes, We Run and Ride Every Day
Tagged angry drivers, bike accident, bike crash, cycling, cycling accidents, cycling advice, cycling injury, cyclist, cyclists, distance running, driving drunk, drunk driving, injury, knife attack, riding, road biking, runner, runners, running, tarsnakes, Thanksgiving, training, women runners
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A maximal take on minimalist running
Let’s talk for a minute about minimalist running. Because we all want to run as naturally as possible. The real deal of course, is running barefoot. That puts you in direct contact with the ground with absolute and constructive feedback … Continue reading
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