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The First Annual Agassiz Uphill, sponsored by Kahtoola and Arizona SnowBowl.
original event idea by steve ilg.
"Actions mirror a man's personality better than his words.
The yogi has learned the art of dedicating all his actions to the Lord,
thereby reflecting the divinity within him."
- Iyengar
8:00am, Agassiz Ski Lodge, near Flagstaff, Arizona. elevation 9,600'.
i toe, sadly, the final Start Line of my '08 winter racing season.
uncommon emotions push and pull my cells as i take my final few warm up minutes...as my well worn lungs attempt yet again to efficiently assimilate the stingy O2 up here, images and sensations of this most rewarding winter season dance throughout my mindscape...Tour de Ski nordic marathon, USSA National SnowShoe Qualifier, Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon, the Arizona Cup Nordic Series, and now, this 2,000' dead run up my backyard ski hill...an event that i originally approached the sponsors with as a bike/snow climb duathlon back in August.
Not a half-baked season at all for this rookie father of a newborn who, at this time last year, was entering a 3-month battle with Cold-Triggered Exercise Induced Asthma after winning the world's highest Nordic Ski race.
using Zazen Mind, i hit my inner Delete Button on such sentiments. Not room for emotional overlay or burden of any sort for the next half hour or so...
for i've got a Race Line to toe...and more Inner Dragons to certainly slay within moments...
an excerpt from:
www.TheOutdoorJourney
as reported by John "Hakado Ru" Kuhlman:
Honor thy locals.
The Flagstaffians milling around the ski lodge prior to the start race must have been descendants of the Scandinavian gods. I swear, not one, male or female, must have weighed more than 150 pounds. Plus, just about every one of these people were damn good looking folks. I later learned that the second place finisher actually ran up the mountain from the highway as his warm-up. By my calculations, that’s 6-1/2 miles starting at an elevation of 7,300 feet and ending at 9,600 feet.I’m not sure what my coach Steve Ilg did as a warm-up, but I saw him running down a steep ski run and heard the other locals talk in hushed tones about him.“Who’s that crazy guy running down the mountain.”“Dude, that’s Steve Ilg.”After the race where he thinks he finished near the top ten out of fifty racers (no official race results as of today), he went telemark skiing for 3 hours...still without a meal for the day. When we caught up with him a couple hours later, guess what his post race & ski nutrition was? Some of his "MAP"Amino Acid capsules and what looked like a bottle of the SUNRIDER Herbs Fortune Delight tea.That’s it.
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