"My" KENDRICK MOUNTAIN DUATHLON! a DL Print-And-Pump-It-Out Guide!

Kendrick Mountain Duathlon
65.50 kilometers (52.25k bike + 13.25k peak run)
(40.7 miles =32.27 mile bike + 8 mile peak run)

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Personal History with Route:
Cross Bike + Run: 4 hours, 13 minutes
11*2*08 solo
conditions; windy, snow at summit

Bike up: 49:30
Run up: 1:12
Run down: 0:51
Bike down: 0:46
Total Time in Transitions: 0:12


Salient Features:
Perhaps Flag's most exquisite mountain duathlon. Certainly in my Top Ten list of Southwest mountain duathlon's. Needs to be a competitive event. The bike segment includes antelope and ancestor spirit-filled pine forests worth the ride itself. The mountain run is a mountain yogi's dream come real... a real Stairmaster of a climb switchbacks again and again upon itself as airplane views begin spilling from beneath your "staircase to Heaven."...

read and keep this fantastic training route on today's DL!

Beings Of Light...if we reMember...

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We must all-Ways remember, Oh Mighty Limb'd Warriors of our Precious Path,
that we were born from,
are sustained by,
and will return again to;
Light...
Divine Light is our Nature
for we have done enough SoulWork
throughout these last few eons
to have earned a Human Incarnation...
and..





READ THE WHOLE TEACHING AND SEE STUNNING EVENING BRAHMAMURHURTI LIGHT EVENT PICS ON TODAYS DIRECT LINES!!!

WELCOME TO THE ONLINE TRAINING TEMPLE: Elizabeth Wright!!

Hello Coach,

Here I am swimming in the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for the Pacific Grove Triathlon this fall. Bi-Coastal ocean swims are very balancing!

Stepping onto the path with you,
Elizabeth

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Noble Sangha,
please welcome one of the Few, one of the Brave;

Elizabeth Wright, Ph.D, as my newest WF Online Student! Warrioress Wright, a former National Champion in equestrian competition, has been a long-time SUNRIDER Herbal Warrioress and got the DL-advertised spot for Online Training. For WF Online StudyPath, she writes;
I found a flyer about this Path in 1982 in Ann Arbor, Michigan was very drawn to the wholistic nature of it. Having kept a light awareness of it for years now, I am ready to work to balance my health, my spiritual and physical practices with this remarkable and unique approach.


I accepted her based on her high degree of non-formal devotion to our humble, powerful, precious Path...Go(o)d Luck along the Steep and Direct Path, EW!
Elizabeth will be introducing herself in the WF SangahLounge soon! Stop by and welcome her!

i nab FIRST TRACKS!!!!

FIRST TRACKS, BABY!!!
got 'em yesterday up Agassiz Peak!

"The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!"
- Sogyal Rinpoche

...and so is an hour-long power-churn up sketched conditions to the top of a Sacred Peak! Mountain Yogis know just how deeeep and potent a meditation is climbing a mountain...Hum SAH! Hum SAH! Hum SAH!!!!


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FIRST (accumulated) SNOW OF THE SEASON!!!!!!!!

On Today's DIRECT LINES!
beautiful pics of Flag's first snow and...
i go for FIRST TRACKS...i'd like to tell you more,
however,
it's a busy day for:

THE WINTER ATHLETE


May My Passion For Frozen Water Element shock your own Water Element and may you CRANK WITH SACRED SWEAT TODAY!

Questions and Answers from a rookie WF Online Student

only for DL Subscribers;
topic includes;
SUNRIDER Herb intake,
MAP Amino Acid intake,
beginning yoga question,
purification of Word Choice,
and more...

Death By Pull Ups...or Death to Connective Tissue?

With latisimus dorsi tendons once capable of 62 consecutive Pull Ups, i now spend countless hours in yoga postures attempting to undue the imbalance created by my Pull Up-specific strength from the 1980's when i was a sponsored climber. Always remember, the pursuit of Wholeness is far, far more difficult to attain than sport- or discipline-specificity. photo from TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION

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Steve,
i just tried this
"Death by Pull-Ups" workout i got from {a professional fitness training company - name withheld to protect their idiocy}: With a continuously running clock do one pull-up the first minute, two pull-ups the second minute, three pull-ups the third minute... continuing as long as you are able.

The record is 27 rounds.

I got completed 6 rounds and crapped out in the 7th.


love,
Student H


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Coach Responds:

H!
Listen closely:
that "Death By Pull-Ups" Workout is a recipe for Death To Connective Tissue Health...especially if a wise and very capable Pull Up base has not been attained. the ligaments and tendons fastening the vulnerable joint articulation of the elbow are easily tweaked, strained, and sprained by jumping into a 'numbers-obsessed' workout choreography like that. worse, from an energetic perspective, is the 'gluing effect' upon the scapular mobility which locks up Anahata Chakral energies from following such 'routines.'

Mastery of elegant, powerful Pull Up FORM is far more important, safe, and wise than obsessing on numbers
(oh i know...i hear you chortle knowing my history with Pull Ups...however, i was a sponsored rock climber back then;
basically, i was professional Pull Upper! dat's different).

if you really need to set your goals on a great Pull Up workout, WF offers many more wise options. Here's one that you can try after you have the capacity to do 3 sets of 10 Pull Ups in elegant form:


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