must say…pensiveness runs rampant like the Tsangpo through my cells tonight…after 8 consecutive years and at least as many as double that over my lifetime, ilg is leaving my Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon Pilgrimage to the capable spirits of Julie “Padma” Mueller (2nd consecutive Mt. Taylor) and Tsidool rookie yet willing Warrior; Brad “bRad” Tafoya…
As is elaborated on in TBT, here are my 10 WF Nutrition Guidelines & The 10 Virtues of WF Nutrition…a proven path through the “quagmire of confusion” which most are susceptive when it comes to balanced nutrition, body weight management, and gratitude for that which nourishes us…
these pics from Saturday’s Winter Warrior 10k Snowshoe Race are courtesy of racer and Winter Warrior; Tracy! i’ll have a race report soon…my video on the race is available for viewing at the Winter Warrior 10k website on Facebook right now!
sOMetimes, ilg doesn’t mind being predictable…with my lifelong Valentines: Mother Nature! Styxx, looking down toward the Nordic Center.. ..Ambassadors Glade; deep, pretty tight trees… …mandatory cliffs on Ambassadors Glade.. .from our Clan to yours…Happy Valentines!
Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything…
As ilg heaved, huffed, and puffed my fatigued hip flexors through the deep, sacred snows i actually arrived at such a point whereupon i felt i was literally fucking the snow with each uphill hip-flexor driven stab into the expansive, soft, and all-too accommodating virgin powder…the universal symbolism upon my sweating, heaving, driving body/mind/spirit not being lost to the rather obvious analogy; at times, the intensity of cardio work spurns sexual passion which of course is but an often sub-conscious, samskaric longing for an end to duality and a return to wholeness.
Take a conventionally-trained runner, for instance. As a typical coach, I would monitor his or her ‘hard days’ with either ‘easy’ or ‘off’ days. Trouble with this predictable, boring approach is two-fold; 1) the runner feels guilty when not training hard or worse, if there is a prescribed ‘off day’ which is enough to send the usually compulsive if not obsessive into conniptions and 2) as my friend and fellow Durangatang, Ned Overend (maybe you’ve heard of him!) taught me many years ago,
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