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Tag Archives: Luther College
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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Sweet season: A simple matter of focus and effort
This is the sixth in a series of articles about the Sweet Season of 1978, my college senior year when our Luther College team placed second in the nation in NCAA Division III cross country. To follow the chronological narrative … Continue reading
Finding unity in a sweet season
This is the sixth in a series of articles about the Sweet Season of 1978, my college senior year when our Luther College team placed second in the nation in NCAA Division III cross country. To follow the chronological narrative … Continue reading
A sweet season heats up
This is the fourth in a series of articles about the Sweet Season of 1978, my college senior year when our Luther College team placed second in the nation in NCAA Division III cross country. Volume one • Volume two • Volume … Continue reading
Posted in cross country, Uncategorized
Tagged Christopher Cudworth, competition, distance running, endurance sports, love, Luther College, run, runner, running, sex, sweet season, training
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By invitation only: Sweet Season #3
Season heating up Having come off a speedy team performance in a quadrangular meet against Augustana College, University of Northern Iowa and the University of Iowa, in which we lost only to UNI, our squad was fired up going into … Continue reading
Posted in running
Tagged college runner, college running, cross country, Luther College, luther cross country, running
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A taste of bittersweet early in the sweet season
This is the second installment of eight blogs about a cross country season forty years ago. On Thursdays, I will recount a most significant period in life, a senior year in college. That’s when hard work paid off, self-belief took hold … Continue reading
Posted in 10K, Christopher Cudworth, competition, cross country, running
Tagged 10000 meters, 5000 meters, bittersweet moments, Chris Cudworth, Christopher Cudworth, college roommate, college teammate, cross country, freshman year, Luther College, national cross country meet, running, track and field
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Hitching a ride
In 1979, the summer after I graduated from college, I moved temporarily back to Illinois from Iowa before starting work that fall as an Admissions department counselor for the college from which I’d graduated. My girlfriend was staying on campus … Continue reading
Last one on the track and proud of it
As a senior in college, I was chosen as the anchor leg of our 4 X 1-mile team for the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. My position as the anchor leg on the relay was not assigned because I was the … Continue reading
Posted in track and field
Tagged des moines iowa, Drake relays, drake university, four mile relay, hipsters, Luther College, mile relay, milers
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Somewhere over the rainbow
Last evening while driving from home to my art studio for a painting session, the clouds to the east grew dark at twilight. Then the sun broke through from the west and caught the edge of the clouds. Up from … Continue reading
No better place than Decorah, Iowa
As a freshman at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, the new environment around our college campus was a mystery. Those first few weeks looping around town in training for cross-country amounted to one unveiling after another. There were gravel roads … Continue reading
