Tag Archives: Lance Armstrong

Putting down the Livestrong bracelet

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth I finally just took it off. After 8 years of wearing a yellow Livestrong bracelet, it occurred to me while putting on a short-sleeved shirt this spring that the point had been long made. Livestrong had in … Continue reading →

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If you run and ride, please be seated

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth How is your relationship with chairs? With seats? Car seats. Desk chairs. Everywhere we go, we’re sitting. But how well? It makes a difference, you know. How you sit. One bad chair can ruin an entire season … Continue reading →

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On running and riding for a school, a team or a cause

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

Looking back at your career in athletics, it is interesting to consider how many labels one adopts and discards along the way. Schools For example, as an athlete competing for school teams, I have been–in order from middle school through … Continue reading →

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Keep On Running says it all in song, almost

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth One must always be wary of how you read–or do not understand–the lyrics of a song, lest you get the message altogether wrong. Recent history (the last 40 years or so) offers up so many examples of … Continue reading →

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Lance Armstrong rides into the present in Oprah Winfrey interview

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

Like a man coming up for air, Lance Armstrong burst through the surface of his deep and fantastic past to breathe the air of reality during his interview with Oprah Winfrey on the OWN network. Whether those initial gulps of … Continue reading →

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Before Lance Armstrong goes on with Oprah Winfrey…

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Christopher Cudworth

Lance Armstrong’s confession was there all along, if you knew where and how to look. As a result, I suggested we all consider forgiving Armstrong for his past transgressions and try to move on with what cycling will become in … Continue reading →

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Suzy Favor Hamilton shows how difficult the race against depression and anxiety can be

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Christopher Cudworth

There is a scene in the movie Men In Black where the characters played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones resort to the supermarket tabloids to find out what’s really, truly, actually happening in the world. That feeling crossed … Continue reading →

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Why we should forgive rather than forget Lance Armstrong

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Christopher Cudworth

Retired professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton’s book The Secret Race documents the doper’s decade of the 2000s when bike racers made a common practice of taking performance enhancing drugs and doing blood transfusion to increase hematocrit counts and raise oxygen carrying … Continue reading →

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I yam what I yam. Hewwhhgh. A runnersk and a cyclisk. Hek hek hek.

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Christopher Cudworth

By Christopher Cudworth “Hewwwgggh. Hi theresk, mateys. Gladsk to sees yah’sk.” Heck eck eckeck.  Ahhh, Popeye. You could hardly understand a word he said, but that was the point, wasn’t it? Popeye was a man of action. Once he got … Continue reading →

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A lasting, longing lament about Lance as liar. And how we see ourselves in him.

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Christopher Cudworth

By Monte Wehrkamp I lied. I’m a liar. I cheated. I skirted rules for my own advantage. I manipulated. I behaved in ways to get my own way. I take no pride in these actions and behaviors. In fact, every … Continue reading →

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