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We run and ride and swim. And then we drink. Sometimes too much.
By Christopher Cudworth In the summer before starting college the group of guys that ran together and hung together began plotting a major league blowout party for an end-of-summer sendoff. We all got blotto. Drunk. Falling down stupefied. And maybe … Continue reading
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Tagged aerobic sports, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, American distance runners, Bicycling, biking, binge drinking, Christopher Cudworth, college binge drinking, college drinking, competition, cross country, cycling, cycling psychology, distance running, drinking, drinking too much, drug abuse, half-marathon, kenyan runners, marathon, marijuana, mental health, pot, runners, running, tarsnakes, we run and ride
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August Answers
August Answers By Christopher Cudworth There’s an audio joke that involves chirping crickets. Often it implies that the person who has been asked a question does not know the answer. Instead we hear “silence” or the sound of chirping crickets, … Continue reading
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Tagged August, august cycling, August riding, August running, August wanderers, Christopher Cudworth, crickets, crickets chirping, cycling psychology, month of August, runner, runners, running, sound of crickets, tarsnake, tarsnakes, we run and ride
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You never dream it could happen to you
By Christopher Cudworth It doesn’t always pay to try to relate dreams to others. It seems you can never fully capture the weirdness and reality of a dream when you describe it to someone else in conversation. Yet sometimes the … Continue reading
Training hard when you run and ride? Not in comparison to a crappy summer job.
By Monte Wehrkamp in response to a shared post by Christopher Cudworth Today’s article begins with an hilarious post from a blogger at the site: It’sAlwaysSunnyRunning.com. I read her posts regularly and this one was particularly funny and true, about … Continue reading
Posted in Mechanical Genius, Tarsnakes, We Run and Ride Every Day
Tagged Christopher Cudworth, driving a truck, full throttle, hard labor, hard summer jobs, hard training, mental health, runners, running, sports, sports psychology, sports versus work, summer job, summer jobs, tarsnake, tarsnakes, triathlon, trucks, we run and ride
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What’s bugging you on the run or ride?
By Christopher Cudworth Every summer while running and riding there seems to be something new and annoying that comes along to bug you from one end of the season to the other. Itching to run and ride For me one … Continue reading
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Tagged angry wasps, braveheart, cycling, gnats, half-marathon, marathoning, riding, running, things that bug you, triathlon, we run and ride, william wallace, yellowjackets
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Enjoying a bloom of fitness
By Christopher Cudworth Athletic fitness, like the bloom of a brilliant flower, often lasts a few days, or at best a few weeks, before the peak fitness must fade. The rhythm of blooms Our bodies, like annual or even perennial … Continue reading
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Tagged biking, bloom of fitness, Candide, cycling, distance running, European workers, half-marathon, long distance running, marathon running, peak fitness, peak training, Philadelphia, PR, PRs, riding, running, running and riding, setting a PR, training, VP of Marketing, we run and ride
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Chain reactions
By Christopher Cudworth Chain reactions Cyclists know there is no more important component on the bike than the bike chain. Along with the crankset it is the primary device that propels you. A rusted chain slows you down. A busted … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Boy, bicycle chain, bike chain, biking, chain link fence, chain reactions, Christopher Cudworth, high school sports facilities, high school track, John Lennon, locked fence, mental health, off limits, runners, running, sports psychology, track workout, track workouts, we run and ride
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Orange Crush redux
By Christopher Cudworth Ask me why I take pictures of things run over on the road and I’ll share the reason that the road is a transient place, its surface is ever changing, and there is something symbolic about that … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, anxious, cycling, fitness test, goal-setting, I've got my spine I've got my orange crush, long distance running, Meryl Streep, Orange Crush, R.E.M, REM lyrics, riding, road kill, running, tarsnakes, Time magazine, University of Kentucky, zen buddhism, zen thought
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Screaming serenity
As it crept into the vernacular as an enticing notion of mind control, the idea of zen thought has been twisted and turned into just about anything a person wants to call it. The Urban Dictionary defines zen this way: One … Continue reading
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Tagged aerobic sports, anxiety, art of zen, biking, Christopher Cudworth, corporate fitness, cycling, cycling psychology, Depression, distance running, faith, half marathoners, half-marathon, health, marathon, marathoners, patience, riding, runners, running, sports psychology, tarsnakes, we run and ride, zen, zen thought
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