DHS Track and XC incoming Junior Dewa Ilg (15) lights up her off season training beneath her father’s coaching as she nabs a 3rd Female Overall Podium at Big Pines 13k Trail Race in Flagstaff on June 10th finishing behind two professionals in a time of 1:10:36. Dewa’s peak race before again representing DHS in XC […]
“3rd Place Doesn’t Walk” – Big Pines 13k – ilgVlog#221 This Weeks Video link https://youtu.be/6avs2pzfp6A 14-minutes I take Dewa back to her birthplace beneath Dokoosliid (Navajo Sacred Peak of the West) for a new race for us; the Big Pines 13k. We’ll use the race as an anchor for a training camp […]
America’s Best 10k; The Bolder Boulder, 43 years older! – ilgVlog#220 This Weeks Video link https://youtu.be/i_N5NQV3xEM 13:43-minutes Voted America’s Best 10k by Runners World, Dewa and I road trip to my old h(om)etown of Boulder, Colorado so I can have Dewa experience the surreal experience of running into Folsom Field (the CU […]
Imagine doing several hours of pro trail work. Into caregiving for your dementia-challenged 93 year-old mom day after today. Into? Singlehandedly coaching and supervising 7 7th graders on our MTB Club. Any one of those tasks would certainly test the skill sets of any 20 year-old these days. That’s how I open our Vlog […]
ASICS Meta Speed Sky – ilgVlog#218 This Weeks Video link https://youtu.be/4FZgMuM4k0I 10:21-minutes: “These aren’t shoes, these are MISSILES for your feet!” – Coach Steve Ilg, ilgVlog#218 Inspiring footage of “The Horse” doing Hill Repeats several days out from racing in America’s largest 10k; The Bolder Boulder before I offer my impressions of ASICS MetaSpeed […]
11:58-minutes: “Of all cardio disciplines, running is the most noble. It’s the most noble because it’s the most naked.” – Steve Ilg, THE OUTDOOR ATHLETE (Johnson Press, 1985) It was over a quarter century ago when I last raced a 1/2 marathon. Voted as one of the top 3 Marathons in the US – […]
Dig Into Your Within – ilg Vlog#216 This Weeks ilgVlog Video link: https://youtu.be/BwDxWDm2kok 11:32-minutes: “Wow Dad, I’ve never skied an avy (avalanche) path before.” – Dewa Ilg, April 2023 Ya’ll DO realize like every week of an ilgVlog contains and beautifully expresses like 10,000 x 10,000 the content of the mainstream influencers, right? Ok, […]
This Weeks Video link this weeks ilgVlog Teaching 14:49-minutes: “There is no such thing as overtraining. There is only under eating, under resting, and failure of will.” – The Barbarian Brothers, circa 1980’s This weeks Vlog highlights a simple, powerful yet oceanically ignored tenet of strength training; The inherent YIN and YANG of each […]
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