“…we get out…we get out with our kids, our Loved Ones, our selves, most of all…and we Breathe..and we Listen..and we Merge…into the SnowDance…”
think bicycle racing is tough? phfff. think nordic ski racing is tough? guess again. running? uh…..kindygarten. ashtanga/power/hot yoga? c’mon; and you best bring your Mula Bandha! Cycle Crosser’s? uh what, y’all run for like uh, 30 seconds max? you don’t know deep, sacred, delicious pain, until you’ve raced on Sport Snowshoes… c’mon…bring your off season […]
“Your suffering is my suffering
and your happiness is my happiness.”
~ Siddhārtha Gautama
yet another Sister found through the Deep Pow Connection…and if you don’t know how Sacred the Deep Pow Connection is?
ya’ just ain’t yet livin’ the WF life to her fullest…that is why ilg offers Private Intensives…ilg will take you into the k(Now)…pic by ilg at Wolf Creek (nearly 11,000′) during pow(der) day…
word on the snow is that National Cycling Champion, Howard Grotts is gunning to toe the Start Line of my Winter Warrior Snowshoe Race this Feb. 9th. in fact, he is coming to my Snowshoe Clinic this weekend, “to learn some technique”..that makes 2 National Champions, (Travis Brown, being the other) that realize the value of high intensity sport snowshoeing to their off-season cycling fitness by toeing my Start Line…how about you?
Brotha’s y’ Sista’s!
Though it runs against my “America’s Outdoor Athlete*” reputation, spiritual lineage, and my inner tendencies to spin indoors (which, BTW, is precisely why God created nordic ski racing!), feeble ilg is attempting to hold down the fort for our most preciously sweet and huge-of-lung and fleet-of-foot Swede, Marisa Asplund, this Saturday morning at 8:15am for her amazing 90-minute spin/core workout at the Durango Rec Center.
River is not shy in her beauty…
Eagle is not shy in his flight..
only Human’s – who’ve been inculcated with myriad parental/societal belief structures superimposed upon our true Nature – are shy (or underconfident).
allWays a distinct honor to give an overnight bunk to one of our Tribe’s most devoted students! Warrior Leaf executed the option to share a
half-day training camp with me before resuming his eastward travels…
here are a few shots..enjoy and be sure to schedule YOUR unique WF Half-Day Winter Sport Training Camp!
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