Event: Langlauf Nordic Marathon 30k (one our nation’s longest running Nordic Marathons at nearly 50 years) Date: Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 Location: Durango Nordic Center Elevation: 8,793′ Snow Situation: 58% of recent snowpack decimated in past 78 hours Race Course Status: Extreme – the first lap of the 4×7.5 kilometer course absolutely terrifying for […]
feeble ilg LOVES QUOTES…. in fact, the second book ilg ever authored was THE OUTDOOR ATHLETE’S TRAINING JOURNAL (*1992/Cordillera Press) was all about quotes! the tea with that book? young ilg was OBSESSED with high performance; how much bigger could ilg make his feeble calves to win a BodyBuilding Competition, how many 100-mile weeks […]
Yeah, see the smiling face? ilg’s clever fall back onto a Teacher’s pithy quote? well? it’s all grist for the mill of Awakening as Ram Dass might put it… today’s skimo (ski mountaineering) workout was yet another roll of the dice during this broken winter in this crazy beautiful, remote corner of SW Colorado… […]
this morning at Cedaredge Motel (ele; “6230′) gazing up at the race venue on Grand Mesa (ele; 11,237′)… pondering yet another great perhaps if ilg could hold onto my 1st Place AG position with 2 more races left in the Series. Day After Valentine’s, 2026… Cedaredge, Colorado… Since this is the first “winter”(*1) racing without Dewachen […]
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NCAA DIII MIDWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP; Girls Race From The Lead Cart! ilgVlog #337 After traveling from Durango, Colorado to Waverly, Iowa to surprise and support Dewa who qualified to compete for Luther College as a freshie, I was determined to record the event as best as I could. Guess what? Found myself on […]
Imagine: Suddenly bec(om)ing a completely unprepared single Daddy in your late 40’s. Flash forward to doing what it takes to create, film, produce, and publish 335 consecutive weekly Vlogs to document my conscious co-parenting journey so your daughter has a family album that will never die even when you do. Then, you do what […]
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