If you’d got a couple of minutes, please enjoy this guided tour of “Phil’s World”…a world-class mountain biking area about a half hour west of Durango, near Cortez, Colorado. This Singletrack Dreamland was created exclusively by and for mountain bikers. A needed break from Durango’s typical 3k’ of climbing, Phil’s terrain features no major climbs, […]
I was informed the night before the Road Race by the Race Organizer that my division “C” would not be eligible for an Overall Championship/Jersey. i’d be moved into the “B” division for the rest of the Championships (RR and Crit). must admit; it was a buzzkill fer sure since i was in first place with my two favorite events ahead of me. yet, podiums i’m not lacking in so it wasn’t that big of a deal.
Durango, Colorado – your “Endless Beginner” of a Tribal Chief made yet another noble – yet unspectacular – effort tonight beneath Sister Rain Clouds and Hanuman Wind Clouds closing in as fast as an October sunset should be over the La Plata Mountains. finished 2nd in the C race among the Durango Sage and the “extremely rough, wet, […]
dat’s right: i’ve been virtually off the bike(s) since placing in the top 20 AG of the Imogene Pass Run and i’ve been fighting off an insanely powerful virus that has laid my two girls flat for five days; yet, when a four-event bicycle racing Championships occurs in my beloved hOMetown of Durango which has […]
My seasoned Students already knew; here it comes; old man ilg’s elegy for September. Geez, you’d think I woulda grown outta of such seasonal sentiment by now, eh? Yet, the spiritual tease of this particular September is more intense than a stoned night at the Rubber Room because I’m finally back in my h(om)etown for […]
“Perceptions create our problems, m(om)ents themselves never do.” – Coach Steve Ilg photo by Ananda of Dewachen yesterday up in the High Country. My 3 year-old Rinpoche is teaching me my highest yoga of my life…each day and in everyWay. click to enlarge Her Transmission into your Practice today! the quote arrived to me yesterday […]
enjoy….4 minutes of WF Chi… World’s SLOWEST MTB Ride? get out and do, dwell within and be… your high mountain yogi
note: this is first in a series of chi hits centering upon my performance at the grand-daddy of North American Mountain Running Races and one of WF’s Most Sacred Pilgrimages: the Imogene Pass Run where ilg was once a top-20 Overall finisher who now just tries to summit near the same time that i once […]
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