barely wheezed my fat feeble ass across less than 3 miles of relatively flat road/bike path terrain today before doing trail work… omg… Plz wish feeble ilg luck… #runningishard like? hear ilg: nordic ski racing is soooo hard; upper body + lower body going into red line sooo fast and for distances from 5k […]
Pic of ilg, ‘thumbless pull-ups’; TOTAL BODY TRANSFORMATION (Hyperion/Disney, 2004) by Steve Ilg. Might still have the “thumbless pull up world record” with 48 consecutive ones?! Who’s keeping track of these absolutely meaningless records except for the warrior performing them? the day started off just fine, really it did… woke up before dawn […]
Life and Sacred Sweat on the TomTom Trail… got the entire south loop done (except hauling away trail debris – miss those Durango Trail interns at my new position! lol). Lmk what you think… what was YOUR Highest Easter Service M(om)ent, today?
Since taking this job two years ago as Trails/Property Manager at Edgemont Highlands after retiring from many years as Crew Leader at Durango Trails® (formerly Trails 2000), this forlorn, non functioning footbridge on the TomTom Trail was a significant blimp upon many other blimps on my mind to upgrade. With 15 miles of trails under […]
breathing into my EMR* knew it would be a doozy of a day for this ol’ man…just didn’t realize how DEEPLY the Deities would assist ilg to create literally the most perfect – no, not perfect; just DIVINE – ending day to Dewa’s first collegiate spring break. knew ilg had to get and keep the […]
when it finally sunk into feeble ilgs last few brain cells still knocking boots up in that precious hemisphere we know as the Skull that Dewa was literally gonna Be Here Now back in Durango? Alongside ilg? My former Shadow returning from the months long darkness of Her at college 1,205 miles away? Reckon it was […]
there are solid reasons why feeble ilg was scared to the core and hunkering in White Thunder this morning moments afore the Start Gun before my final chance to win the second of the two season long Nordic Race Series that are the goals of any Nordic Ski Racer in the American Southwest… find out why, […]
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 […]
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