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Tag Archives: kaneland high school
50 Years of Running: Sweet consolation
When indoor track rolled around in the winter of 1974, our track team moved over to an elementary building called Davis School five blocks from the high school. There we engaged in an intense series of proprioceptive exercises under the … Continue reading
Posted in love, running, sex, track and field, training
Tagged better runner, cross country, distance training, flashing, high school fun, kaneland high school, mental block, middle distance runner, mile time, mile times, mooning, parking, Sebastian Coe, sex, state track meet, trent richards
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50 Years of Running: Jumping Through Hoops
While my love of running had grown through a pair of successful cross country seasons, I’d been raised in a basketball family and went straight to practice the week after the Sectionals meet where our small school got handed a … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: A Coach is Born
For closing insights on a fun and meaningful two years of cross country at Kaneland High School, I called up Coach Richard Born to discuss his coaching career with the program. He started coaching Kaneland cross country in 1968. He … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Predecessors
In writing this biography about 50 years of running experience, I come to points where the story seems to broaden because it occurs to me that the circumstance into which I entered was different than I imagined or understood. That … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, college, competition, cross country, running, triathlete, triathlon, triathlons, we run and ride
Tagged abuse, authoritarian, authoritarian control, concussion, Craig Virgin, cross country, dennis hastert, gazelle, Geneva High school, guidance counselor, kaneland high school, kaneland track, Lee Labadie, Mike Durkin, moilers, predecessors, social pressures, speaker of the house, university of illinois, wheaton college football players
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50 Years of Running: Turning dreams into reality
During the 1972 cross country season at Kaneland High School, the program started to fulfill its potential in new ways. The Varsity and Sophomore programs both finished with 14-3 records for the year. The schedule of 17 dual and triangular … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Cudworth, competition, cross country, running
Tagged 1972, coaching, cross country, football, kaneland high school, little seven conference, rich born, runner, running
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50 Years of Running: Freshman results
The Kaneland Cross Country team competed in 21 meets in 1971, my freshman year in high school. That wasn’t just the number of teams we competed against during duals and triangulars.That’s the total number of races we ran. The weekly … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Competitive instincts
After the first few days of cross country practice as a freshman in high school, the team began to sort itself into shape. Every member of the Kaneland team had the goal of making the Top 7. After a week … Continue reading
50 Years of Running: Hilltop Encounters
Perhaps a couple weeks into that first cross country season in 1971 at Kaneland High School, our team piled into a yellow school bus and traveled east for ten miles to a park known as Johnson’s Mound Forest Preserve. That … Continue reading
Posted in 10K, aging, Christopher Cudworth, climbing, college, cross country, nature, running
Tagged climbing, cycling, hill running, johnson's mound forest preserve, kaneland high school, nature, run, runner, running hills
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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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50 years of running: An introduction to pain
This is the first in a series of articles chronicling fifty years of running since I went out for cross country as a freshman in high school. Some point in the middle of August 1971, my father drove me from … Continue reading
Posted in aging, aging is not for the weak of heart, cross country, mental health, running
Tagged 8th grade, cross country, elburn illinois, father good advice, fatherhood, football, football injury, freshman, going out for football, kaneland high school, lancaster pennsylvania, run, runner, running
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