click to enlarge the chi hits…
(the first one makes an especially potent screensaver…one of many from the DL Archives!)
High in the Weminuche Wilderness of a land known as southwestern Colorado, lies an enchanted village ensconced within ancient healing waters, snow-dappled summits, towering ponderosa, and the purest of all waters rushing, glinting among sandstone canyons. Magic – and perhaps wizards – live here.
ilg knows this because at one time, i lived here; Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
And, a few weekends ago, I raced there for the first time since having lived there.
What you are about to read, my Noble Friend Along The Path of Awakening?
Is less about racing a high-altitude mountain duathlon, crashing at high-speed, getting up, winning Overall by 20 seconds at age 47…and is instead, much, much more about…
well…
magic.
stay tuned, my Race Report on the Pagosa Duathlon coming this weekend
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photos:
1) looking west toward Pagosa Springs, Colorado from Wolf Creek Pass…i once clocked 59 mph on a bicycle at this turn during a race…in the rain…but that’s another story for another time. photo by ilg, a few weeks ago.
2) the San Juan River as she flows through mid-town Pagosa Springs. photo by ilg.
3) ilg, a bloodied warrior, wins the top step of the Overall Podium! photo by Tom Steen.
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