pic by HP Yogini Dawagahti Lee: your feeble teacher of nothing, “Off in search of a great perhaps,” beginning a 4-mile descent on my mountain bike after riding it up and stashing it at 12,378′ to peak run/scramble the seld(om)-visited summit of Three Needle Peak (13,491′) on Sunday, errr, yesterday. see my personal FB page for […]
Nabbin’ Madden Bike/Run Duathlon Workout – Level One Variation (Level Two, C(om)ing Soon!) Start Location: halfway between Durango and Mancos, Colorado Equipment: although i used a Cross Bike for this particular day, a MTB would probably serve you better. Running shoes. Hydration Pack with Tailwind. Ilg’s Roundtrip Time: just under 3 hours. […]
apic of Dewa’s left hand bec(om)ing a conduit of It All as she tangibly Connects with another precious Butterfly Being. this pic was captured by Sandra Lee last week, during a run/hike in the upper Piedra River Canyon near where once, many moons ago when i lived in Pagosa Springs, i used to watch River Otters […]
Profound and tranquil, free from complexity, Uncompounded luminous clarity, Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas; This is the depth of the mind of the Victorious Ones. In this there is not a thing to be removed, Nor anything that needs to be added. It is merely the immaculate Looking naturally at itself. NYOSHUL KHEN RINPOCHE […]
pic of feeble ilg by James Hobby during a spring Time Trial in the ongoing DWC Championships in which ilg sit’s 4th place AG while prioritizing other disciplines outside cycling, a common trait of Wholistic Fitness® warriors which he has trained since 1981 Things I’ve Learned from Being An Endless Beginner By coach steve ilg, July 2, 2016 […]
for the first spring in a while, ilg did not c(om)pete in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic – one of my Three Sacred Race Pilgrimages of Wholistic Fitness®* see, my lil brother was gettin’ hitched in Albuquerque (yeah, the Duke City) and so that glorious event put a kibosh on my usual Iron Horse Pilgrimage in which i’d […]
…mind unruffled
shaking distractions away
like the wind-god
scatters a few
forest leaves.
– Kottitha
(written a few thousand years ago)
Confidence is born from Training.
Though i’ve not sat in a bicycle saddle a FRACTION of the time compared to the mighty warrior brothers tonight? Ilg will be smiling upon my aero bars, hunkered low against Sister Wind, snapping my thighs at the top tube, recollecting my times offering my sweat upon the scared snows while ski racing, snowshoeing, and doing the MULTISPORT DANCE!
Wholeness lives in versatility.
Never count out your ‘lack of specific training’…that’s an illusion of the sport-specific Clans…so predictable in their lack of wholeness, in their lack of trust in It All…
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