Winter Park, CO – Friday, March 6th, 2026 – Travel Day (pic; Byers Canyon, near Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado) “winter drive…over 7 high mountain passes, 250 miles, much of which was only ilg and the snowplows… visibility limited to 10m… loved it…” detail; accumulated Snow Beings disengaged from White Thunder after arriving in […]
Event: Langlauf Nordic Marathon 30k (one our nation’s longest running Nordic Marathons at nearly 50 years) Date: Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 Location: Durango Nordic Center Elevation: 8,793′ Snow Situation: 58% of recent snowpack decimated in past 78 hours Race Course Status: Extreme – the first lap of the 4×7.5 kilometer course absolutely terrifying for […]
feeble ilg LOVES QUOTES…. in fact, the second book ilg ever authored was THE OUTDOOR ATHLETE’S TRAINING JOURNAL (*1992/Cordillera Press) was all about quotes! the tea with that book? young ilg was OBSESSED with high performance; how much bigger could ilg make his feeble calves to win a BodyBuilding Competition, how many 100-mile weeks […]
Yeah, see the smiling face? ilg’s clever fall back onto a Teacher’s pithy quote? well? it’s all grist for the mill of Awakening as Ram Dass might put it… today’s skimo (ski mountaineering) workout was yet another roll of the dice during this broken winter in this crazy beautiful, remote corner of SW Colorado… […]
this morning at Cedaredge Motel (ele; “6230′) gazing up at the race venue on Grand Mesa (ele; 11,237′)… pondering yet another great perhaps if ilg could hold onto my 1st Place AG position with 2 more races left in the Series. Day After Valentine’s, 2026… Cedaredge, Colorado… Since this is the first “winter”(*1) racing without Dewachen […]
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HOW CORTISOL BREAKS DOWN MUSCLE & PREVENTS PROTEIN SYNTHESIS March 11, 2025 9 min read Did you know too high cortisol levels not only build excess body fat, but prevent protein synthesis and actually break down our muscle? The hormone cortisol is vital to our body, but when levels get too high it can cause […]
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