Now, here’s something you don’t see too often…
think bicycle racing is tough? phfff. think nordic ski racing is tough? guess again. running? uh…..kindygarten. ashtanga/power/hot yoga? c’mon; and you best bring your Mula Bandha! Cycle Crosser’s? uh what, y’all run for like uh, 30 seconds max? you don’t know deep, sacred, delicious pain, until you’ve raced on Sport Snowshoes… c’mon…bring your off season […]
my most pertinent encouragement to younger sponsored athletes/yogis? is to consider…
pic: ilg in Weighted Padmasana Push Ups
so, Needham Elementary, where Dewa goes to the Shared Homeschooling Program 2x weekly, had a pretend “Lock Down” today. Joy Kilpatrick and i were all concerned about how the “Lock Down” might traumatize her and all, right? well when M(om)my brings her home and Dewa
runs into my open arms, she screams,
ilg feels cOMpassion for all those cyclists and runners and dryland triathletes which refuse the nordic snows and spend all winter on indoor trainers like so many rats in a lab…oooooh!
Confused by beauty (5)
Scintillated by It All (7)
Ice melts, so do we (5)
– pic and haiku by ilg
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i released this pic and Haiku on my personal Facebook Page..nearly immediately 37 warriors chimed in..i offered a free DVD to the person writing a
haiku about the picture presented…the winner was Durangatang and HP Yogini Devotee, Jacqueline B who submitted:
• Full Wolf Moon – January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January’s full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.
Many of you know ilg’s story…one of my first Dharma Teachers, Guru’s, and Beloved Mentor, Friend, and cOMpatriot during my chi-ldhood years growing up here in Durango was my precious wolf hybrid; Apache. i’ve …
when was the last time you out-sprinted a teenager after running a heart rate of 166+ for 50 minutes at 9,000’…and WON!?!
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