photo; taking care of business on the Ski and Snowshoe Segments to win the Overall Mens Open Championship of the 2005 Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon.
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It's Taylor Time; Part One = The Yin of my Preparation
i first raced her as a soloist throughout the eighties. in those days i was an editor for Rocky Mountain Sports & Fitness, a magazine that covered various races up and down the spine of the central and southern Rockies. i always did my best to present this race as special. it is my prayer that i helped the race maintain her visibility through some lean exposure years.
Back then, i would break into the top twenty of Soloists. And break myself along her 75-kilometer, 4-different sport race route to the top of 13,311' Mt.Taylor and back again...
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Here is another excerpt from Today's entry; you can't get this stuff ANYWHERE ELSE!
The Annual Seduction Of Tsidool...
in many Ways, Tsidool (means; The Turquoise Mountain...the Native American nomenclature for this Sacred Peak) is my Mt. Kalias of the Himalaya. For Tsidool is to me, the abode of Shiva. I have trained upon Her in all seasons, and for all reasons. i have heard the Kachina Goddess's laugh and chatter in their fifth dimensional Realm while spilling my own holy water in the form of sweat among her pines which wave in the high desert winds like the tails of foxes or of wolves.
Like all genuine forms and disciplines of Yoga, if you so choose to toe the Start Line of Mt. Taylor and do so with spiritual sincerity, She will inevitably round off brittle and stiff edges in more ways than just the physical ones.
Her days are short, Her nights fall swiftly. The earth surface seems to float as you climb higher upon Her rocky heights. From the summit, everything is...
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Registration for Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon ends on February 14. Why don't you come and Dance with me?
here is the website for the race. check it out. please. it is one of our Tribe's worship grounds, Sacred Grounds, that each of you should at least know.
if not sweat upon:
Mt.Taylor Winter Quadrathlon
