“i have c(om)e to dis-cover and re-cover time again, how sacredly sweating within the terrain of Mother Earth and beneath Father Sky unconditionally forces us to feel unguarded, vulnerable, unprotected. It’s just this very fact – derived fr(om) Direct Experience – that c(om)peting and/or challenging ourselves in the wildness makes us stronger.” – steve ilg, […]
pic: Coach Hannah of Durango Nordic Team took this pic of Dewa and your feeble teacher at Gudy’s Rest above my chi-ldhood h(om)e drainage; Junction Creek during Team Training on Saturday. my chi-ldhood h(om)e was about 1.25 inches left of Dewa’s left wrist in this photo. Dewa crushed the 8-mile out-and-back to Gudy’s in […]
mere M(om)ents after earning Her 4th consecutive Honor Roll and Good Conduct Award, Dewa shifted gears… and posted up over 7+ miles over a full on asphalt road while taking the time to help Her lower classmates during a 90-minute Fun Run Fundraiser to which ilg reached out to ALL of you on Social Media […]
My Hopi Family taught feeble ilg, “If you’re lucky enough to be a runner? Well then? You are lucky enough!” Your feeble teacher of no-thing was deeeeeeply lucky (Blessed) to run steep and get Pranically high today in a short window of time available between Single Daddying and CareGiving to ilg’s M(om)… made the most […]
pic by coach ilg: moments ago – Dewa crushing the beginning of the semi-tech uphill high point to Meadow Loop with fellow St. Columba schoolmate Annie, hot on her heels. Sangha Note: The following is an edited version of what ilg just sent into St. Columba School as a follow up to my Week […]
pic fr(om) today: feeble ilg’s outdoor athlete journey began at age 8 fr(om) my parents’ house at the end of Junction Creek Road. ilg’s chi-ldhood’s hood was the entire San Juan National Forest which ilg and my black wolf-hybrid, Apache, ruled. so, nearly 50 years your feeble teacher of nothing has been chronically outdoors […]
Kavik is my Ilg-given Tribal Name. Nickname, if you will. It is the Inuit word for Wolverine. As you read the following report, it will become clear why I have been given this name. 😉 It is an honor. This has been a winter of many firsts for kavik. Firsts in a long list of […]
pic by HP Yogini Caroline Eastburn of your feeble teacher m(om)ents after sealing my Championship win of the 2018/19 Southwest Nordic Cup after a 2 hour and 11 minute effort at the Langlauf Nordic Marathon on Saturday upon the softest, most energy-sapping track ilg has ever had to ski a marathon upon! Brutal! Thank […]