“Bootin’ up a Sawtooth coolie.” – WF Devotee Ralph Shelton Namaste!Hi Coach,Big fan of your teachings. I still have the original “Outdoor Athlete“. I am getting ready for Ski Mountaineering/Touring season and starting Green Tara after a lay-off from injury. I just recently subscribed to your Newsletter and you suggested to stay informed via Facebook. […]
“What stories,what ‘mental tapes’are you attached tothat destroys your serenity?” – coach steve ilg – camping rumination click on pics to enlarge the chi hit yesterday, way up high on the Colorado Trail near Molas Pass; i’m trying to teach Dewa how to look like Clint Eastwood in this pic by Ananda because, “It’s a […]
i’m taking my girls camping (and myself running) up here in these San Juan high peaks tomorrow. it’s already getting close to freezing overnight up here…up here in the birthplace of WF so high, so beautiful, so pranic…so far above the rest.i need my 3 year-old daughter to immerse her precious cells within that rarefied […]
Grandmother, last night, rising over the Animas River… Each day arising seems to me to be an utter, unspeakable act of miraculous awe…i’m not implying ‘easy’…i’m just saying; Awe… At It All. i mean, now that i am a New Daddy, i read the newspaper (only after Meditation, of course, and never on my WF […]
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 […]