pic by David Preston: maybe the best shot of all and we had a LOT of world-class, spirit moving pics from my www.WinterWarrior10k.com race this past Saturday at the Durango Nordic Center. In this pic, Dewachen Ilg (8) leads her M(om), Joy Kilpatrick up the second of my three-tiered monster headwall leading into the Stadium Finish; Last Gasp Hill. Poor M(om)ma…i know by Direct Experience what it takes to attempt to hold onto Dewa’s fleet-flying feet. Dewa held hands with her M(om) nearly the whole race, sacrificing her own personal result in her unconditional, caring process to make sure her M(om) would make it through the 5k effort. She did. And? With 600 meters to go to the Finish and with one racer 250-meters ahead? Dewa turned to her M(om) and asked,
“Are you okay Mommy if i go?”
Joy looked at her daughter through her sweat-soaked eyes and replied,
“Darling Girl? You GO, get that racer! I’ll see you at the Finish Line, my Love!!!” as her shouting voice trailed off into the divine reverberations of a snow-clad Cascade Canyon…
oh…Dewachen Catherine Ilg went, all right. full bore. and Trust me…even though the Rinpoche Who Chose To C(om)e Through Joy And Feeble Ilg is only 8? She lit it up, baby and i saw the small fierceness as i was race announcing at the Finish Stadium whereupon Dewa not only caught the adult racer in front of her, but crushed it to fall exhausted across the Finish to continue her UNBROKEN WINNING STREAK in the – get this; 44-and-under Age Group at one of the world’s most demanding races…
oh, and if THIS story touched your spiritual Heart?
that was JUST the Beginning of the AMAZING STORIES which unfolded across the sacred snows at my Winter Warrior 10k race which is, to ANYONE with even a shred of their Spiritual Awareness still intact? The Highest Pilgrimage, Vinyasa, Workout that ANYONE who dares call him or herself a “Warrior” embark upon.
head bowed,
feeble ilg
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