hanging out with ilg near Flagstaff, AZ. pic by Bill Galen.
Let’s forget about all the cycling equipment and expensive tweaks you’ve purchased over the past, say 3 years. Let’s trade ALL of it for something that is endlessly more vital to your enjoyment, performance, and spiritual transformation through cycling: a flat spine while riding. Oh, like you have something MORE important to work on over the winter than getting a flatter back, more open, powerful hips, and a stronger core?
photo by LA Times; ilg racing into the Bardo Night pull during the Furnace Creek 508 race, Death Valley, CA.
"The Ilg before the storm..."| C | Pts. | Name | Time | + | Avg. |
| 1 | 25 | Steve Ilg | 00:37:29.08 | +00:00 | 24.33 mph |
| 2 | 21 | Kurt Blair | 00:38:38.75 | +01:10 | 23.60 mph |
| 3 | 18 | Greg Otteson | 00:41:02.12 | +03:33 | 22.22 mph |
2010 Durango Wheel Club Championships
DWC Championships (Preliminary) Omnium Results,
2 of 4 events,
Oct. 5-10 2010
| 1 | Steve Ilg | 2-21 | 1-25 | 46 |
| 2 | Kurt Blair | 3-18 | 2-21 | 39 |
| 3 | Steve Morozowich | 1-25 | 0-0 | 25 |
Durango, Colorado -
your “Endless Beginner” of a Tribal Chief made yet another noble – yet unspectacular – effort tonight beneath Sister Rain Clouds and Hanuman Wind Clouds closing in as fast as an October sunset should be over the La Plata Mountains.
finished 2nd in the C race among the Durango Sage and the “extremely rough, wet, and rutted” singletrack in this backyard training sufferfest of world-class mountain bikers since the 1980′s.
especially for New Daddies everywhere – combating an in-casa illness for five days and a near-complete lack of specific mountain bike race training – i reckon my effort tonight scored a B on the WF Noble Meter.
Maybe a B+...
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coach in Meditation, the 4th of the 5 Noble Fitness Disciplines of Wholistic Fitness™/photo courtesy Wholistic Fitness Archives.
It’s the casual questions I get after teaching another Samadhically infused HP Yoga™ class in the Sacred Cave that are always difficult to answer questions about Meditation…I take this as a compliment; any yoga class that ends with students moved enough to ask about Meditation is to me, a sign of Teaching Success in the Highest of Ways. If you’re gonna get a yoga class high, then you better make sure the high ain’t coming from dirty, stale bong water! Keep it clean, keep it Wholy Sweat!
I’m gonna tell you something very special that my Tibetan Meditation Teachers at Naropa taught me…
According to the Ancient Enlightened Ones, the Warrior Energy is summoned...
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Photo; Multi-time State Nordic Champion coach ilg, ramping up for snow season on East Animas Road yesterday. Pic by Vishnu.#10) Cuz it cuts up your thighs, calves, abs, intercostals, butt, lats, and delts like NOTHING else can while burning twice as many calories as lower body specific endurance activities!
#9) Union-carbide road ski pole tips gives you the upper hand against omnipotent chasing dogs, paparazzi, bears, serial murderers, etc.
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refreshed DAILY if not more!
What makes the bliss of a Durango September so potent is the fact that you’re standing right in the middle of a gold mine; the aspens turning, the amber rays of fleeting afternoons while ripping some shale singletrack along Raider Ridge…slow pedaling home while marveling at the geese skulling a twilight sky over the Ganges of the San Juans.
The gold mine will soon be covered, equally skillfully and equally beautifully, by a pandemonium of snow. That same snow will inevitably cover my autumn sentiments softly, like a barefoot hobo walking the tracks. My heart swells while I feel my love for autumn in the breeze yet I know that same breeze will soon freeze as it floats away into winter’s cold embrace...
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