i made a veiled invitation to Master Student Alan "L'Gaté" Ludgate to submit a Race Report on our shared Pilgrimage to the Mother of all Mountain Races, Imogene Pass last Saturday.
Like the impeccably brilliant Master Student he is, L'Gaté immediately produced this offering for all of us.
May each of us be inspired by this NYC Warrior who took pilgrimage to the misty, lofty mountains of the WF Birthplace and danced his dragons with fierce grace...as i read through his beautiful words, i reflected on some of the intense training i put him through in order to prepare for his Pilgrimage...
L'Gaté and i cranking off some Medicine Ball Tosses; preparing his core/hip chain musculature to withstand the 4+ hours of sustained effort which Imogene would demand months later...
Imogene humbles the runner by placing an insanely high mountain pass in front of you which can either intimidate or infuse...i took L'Gaté indoor climbing to teach him to 'keep one eye on the summit and devote yourself to the present m(om)ent,'...determination to keep moving upward is a huge part of Imogene success!
...L'Gaté seeing God, gasping God, reeling with God after a sustained uphill nordic ski interval with me last winter here in Flag...any yogi who accepts the Imogene pilgrimage will be forced to surrender to his or her deepest Breath Body and remain with their Breath Body for several hours...this is vital to any pilgrimage so that the Mental Body becomes erased!
...and now,
i give unto our Practice,
L'Gaté's Imogene Race Report...
also known as:
"Jazz in the Present Tense,"
L'Gaté...Cash, Coltrane, and Marley are pleased...i can feel it from here. It was deep honor to share the Sacred Sweat with you in 'my' San Juan's...
Namaste,
your loving coach
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Sangha,
About six months ago, Coach and I had an e-mail exchange to plan our next private intensive, my third in 5 1/2 years of WF training. I suggested we organize the intensive around a race. Coach asked what I had in mind. Recalling past DL entries, I asked "what about the Soulstice Race in Flag, or something in Telluride around Imogene?" Coach's response was..."IMOGENE!!?!??!...that would be a Noble Pilgrimage in deed!"...
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