Tag Archives: running

A new way of racing through life

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

As the cancer treatments from 2006 did their work on my wife, she eventually moved into a period of remission. But it wasn’t an easy path. After eight rounds of harsh chemo, they told her that she’d done the ‘Gold … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Going Big Time

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

After the 9/11 tragedy rocked just about everything in American life, people looked for normalcy just about any way they could find it. At the same time, the newspaper industry in which I worked was getting slammed right and left … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Great joys and hard lessons

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

The day-to-day joy of writing full-time for a living was not lost on me. I truly loved writing columns and found it fascinating to edit national columnists’ work from all sorts of political perspectives. As editorial writers, our job was … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Moving meditation

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

When I landed the job as an editorial writer for the Daily Herald, nothing excited me more than producing weekly columns for publication in the newspaper. I’d first done a column back in 1980 when I was just out of … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: New situations, new locations

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

Starting the new job at the Daily Herald newspaper felt a bit like coming home again. But that wasn’t the only way that life felt like it was getting back to normal. The year that I joined Aspen Marketing we … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Circling back

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

Back when I lived in Paoli, Pennsylvania (182-83) during a short stint with the marketing department at Van Kampen Merritt in Philadelphia, I joined a great group of runners through the Runner’s Edge running store. Most of those guys, the … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Of Stinky Feet and Blinding Stress

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

In 1995 I was thirty-eight years old with a wife and two kids, and suddenly, out of work. The ENVIRONS business I’d cobbled together with a spate of contracts fizzled out with the failure of the development company to land … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Getting On Track With Rotary

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

During the same set of years that I served with the Batavia Chamber of Commerce, I signed up for the local Rotary International club in Batavia. I already had a history of working with service clubs and organizations. My friends … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Emotional Intelligence in the Face of Corporate and Community Politics

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Christopher Cudworth

At about the same time that I won the position of Promotions and Creative Services Manager for the Kane County Chronicle in 1990, my activity in the city of Batavia led to a rise in responsibilities in the local Chamber … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Running: Stumbling into “real life.”

Posted on September 20, 2022 by Christopher Cudworth

Thus far in this series on 50 Years of Running, I invited readers on a journey through my competitive career beginning with high school cross country and going through college and beyond. Then I went back and covered the formative … Continue reading →

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