Coach Ilg, I wanted to share some things with you. I have been training steadfastly for the last 3 years. Strength training, bike riding, trail running and yoga are weekly things. Meditation has become a nearly daily ritual. My copies of “The Winter Athlete” and TBT are dog eared. I am not sure there are […]
They Ain’t Laughing Now…i first wrote publicly about the physiologic, physical, and spiritual dangers of listening to headphones while exercising when “Walkmans” first became popular in the early eighties. Back then i was a columnist for Rocky Mountain Sports & Fitness. I wrote that listening extensively to blaring music piped directly into ears was a […]
…and other Wholistically-wise Elders speak of our nation’s TRUE cross-training origins; WF!… Hey Coach!I remember talking with you about this stuff when you were training me at Farentinos Gym (in Boulder, CO). Suffice to say that was ages before anyone bothered trademarking “Crossfit.” Kind of sad how that new religion has screwed things up for […]
The nation’s only remaining wood-burning engine that is still operational. please; click to appreciate…you can see the stack of wood behind the Engineer! Yup, Durango’s RAILROAD DAYS are here! i was totally jonesing to get a shot of this most precious antique for y’all. This morning i was alerted to this guy chugging up the […]
My Precious Live-in Rinpoche…Dewachen. Totally stoked for her first day of pre-school this morning (8:30 – 12:00) at my alma mater, St. Columba. click to enlarge the ‘Dewa Chi’. * It’s a heccuva thing; this Conscious Parenting gig… What you see in the photo above is the one thing that all Conscious Parents pray and […]
Hey Coach Ilg!You gave a great talk to us at the Mountain Shop in Ft. Collins years ago, back when no one really thought much about training and doing any type of crosstraining or supplementary work. It was great stuff! Thank you,Steve SeckingerFt. Collins, CO
More than a few WF Yogis have been here…some of you with your anal sphincters beginning to contract; the beginning of the knife-edge arete of my lifelong Sacred High Peak Pilgrimage; Engineer Mountain this morning…YouTube link of me running this 12,613′ granite puja table this morning in my ‘moccasins’ is found below… *** Most Noble […]
“The tightness will not resolve by itself.The pains, the aches, the lack of equanimity…those are all beacons streaming from our Inner Lighthouse.Feeble ilg says, Just Do The Practice and Begin Again and Again, and Endlessly Again tobreathe into and release that which is restricting us.Don’t ignore the Inner Lighthouse! Honor your Inner Light!”– coach ilg‘the […]
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