above photo: "Give me Wholism or give me death...NEVER Specialize!!!"
ilg rounds Corner #2 at last weekends Downtown Criterium in Durango, Colorado..."i want my podiums in cycling to reflect the versatility of my fitness - from mountain bikes to ultras to 60-minute criteriums, fortunately, i've been able to do just that!" - ilg. photo by Barak Naggan
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"ILGBRO!
4th place at Iron Horse!?!!!
Get out!
That’s righteous at that race man. Props to your fit ass for sure.
Oh the tribal sweat! The love of the friggin’ pain! Wallack and I spent some time talking about Ilgbro’s posture during the 2004 Furnace Creek 508…the absolute world record for the most perfect cycling posture I have ever seen! A redefining of aero positioning!
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In sweat,
RJ"
Ron Jones, Race Across America champion
www.ronjones.org
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EXCERPT FROM TODAY's DL:
"at 30 minutes into this mayhem, i was still with the leaders and began to find inner quiet in this forest of adrenalin. back when i used to race Crits each week, i knew that i was going to perform well when this quaint sense of relaxed awareness visited my throbbing thighs and screaming lungs. it's the strangest, most beautiful thing this dreamlike sensation of Divine Calmness during high-intensity effort and danger. of all the 23 sports i've practiced, only ice-climbing/mountaineering affords to me this same peculiar medicine of muscle-induced samadhi during intensity.
it was shortly thereafter ilg made a tactical mistake and nearly paid for it with my hide. for some insane reason, i figured i'd 'test the legs' of the leaders and put in a hard pull by going off the front and hammer for a lap... "
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