one week after bringing home gold, silver, and bronze at the Chili Ski Classic – your coach attempts (note Word Choice: ‘attempts’) to switch physiologic gears at the 42-kilometer and 3,000′ of climbing at 13,000′; Durango’s homegrown, Tour de Ski…
ilg deep in the Bardo suffering required for a Gold Medal at last weekend’s Chama Ski Classic…my own Snowshoe Race, perhaps the most ‘brutal-ful’ ever created on Turtle Island, comes for the first time ever to the mecca of world-class athletes; Durango, Colorado, on Saturday, February 12th…be there! below is the Facebook page for info…pic by Pat Hogan.
Remind me again why the hell i should NOT raise my daughter to be a nordic ski racer? futilely yet steadfastly chasing last year’s champion, Clay Moseley – a world class cyclist – during last Sunday’s 10k Chama Ski Classic. elevation; close to 10,000’. remember, this the day AFTER racing a 15k Freestyle race at the same elevation! as you can see, i’ve at least manufactured a big gap between myself and third place…more importantly, i’m trying to put seconds between myself and anyone else in the King Of The Mountain (KOM) competition which goes to the fastest Classic 10k skier and 5k Snowshoer…as you’ll soon read, i would lose my KOM title by 40 seconds. photo by Pat Hogan.
Coach; i’ve got a question on deadlift form. when I’m lowering the bar, my knees tend to flare out to keep my spine straight up and down. is this ok or should i focus more on repeating the exact same form on the way down? i’m trying to be conscious of not straining the low back on the way down.
14 dips! getting better. pullups…. not so much. working on it!
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Durango multi-sport athlete and trainer, Steve Ilg, after narrowly missing a defense of his “King Of The Mountain” title by half a minute to a racer over 15 years younger.
i can do it, i can do it…i kept telling myself…up and over a short roller, we went..we passed a lap racer…Tim was in the finishing straight, the people were cheering, nordic bells were ringing…this is why we race…i stabbed my ski poles in a vicious manner, pumping out my V2 cadence with as much Warrior verve as i could muster.
i finished 2 seconds behind him, 7th Overall…3rd in my Age Group.
tomorrow would be another day; MY DAY TO DEFEND MY KING OF THE MOUNTAIN TITLE! could i do it…especially after wasting myself on this brutally beautiful 15k? hmmm….
‘If you’re not desperate for time to meditate, you are not desperate enough…yet.’ – coach steve ilg
…it’s a little scary how fast i return to my previous life as a solo sadhaka…delightfully, i built a fire in my cabin, got into my yogi birthday clothes, and immediately dove deep into a solo asana, pranayama, and meditation session…hours flew by like Ravens in an updraft as i merged sacredly into an inner pranic ocean of Himalayan cave like retreat…Blessed are we who crave inner-Attainment over entertainment…
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