Race Report 7th Annual Winter Warrior 10k Snowshoe Race Saturday, January 28, 2017 Durango Nordic Center Men’s Course Record Remains, But Not The Ladies! The stunning ‘bluebird’ sky on race morning turned out to be a mirror of the collective effort of 60 snowshoe racers; cold, sacred, and dazzling! 32 Ladies and 22 Men […]
feeble ilg all-ways seems to have the Weminuche Deities with me when racing in Pagosa Springs, Colorado…my old h(om)etown! Not sure, but I think I just took Overall Silver at the National Push-Your-Fat-Bike-Through-Miles-Of-Soft-Snow Championship! Actually it was this morning’s ‘Dust 2 Fat Bike Race’ in Pagosa Springs, CO and it was a 7-mile very ‘wholistic’ […]
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…
pic: Daddy and Dewa during an autumn run/hike in the La Plata Mountains by Joy Kilpatrick. Dewa wants (this week, at least) to c(om)pete in the 2024 Olympics in the Hurdles. D-cat is tied for being the smallest in her class – however Dewa is also the youngest and could be a 2nd, instead of […]
“Panta Rhei” said Heraclitus… everything flows, and you cannot step twice into the same stream… S(om)etimes, okay…nearly ALL the time, people just crack me up. “OMG! Look at your abs! How old are you?” thundered the likely (obviously) intoxicated voice from a female fellow hot-springer at the Pagosa Hot Springs Resort this past Sunday. “Uhhh…in […]
pic: the Rainbow All-Ways leads you to what is Most Important…Dewa quickly drew this during the Awards Ceremony at my final Winter Race of this season which aptly included both Dewa and Joy Kilpatrick whose Noble Efforts took us to an Overall Title… i went hard for the first 800 meters… knew the Course…was a […]
yah, Omnium, cuz just racing from Durango to Silverton is sooooo not wholistic! why just suffer ONE DAY when you can test your spirit and sweat over THREE days!
DURANGO HERALD SPORTS/OUTDOOR BRIEFS Local yoga teacher/personal fitness trainer, Steve Ilg (53) lost in his defense of the 2015 Overall Championship in the 13th running of the “Leadville Loppet Nordic Marathon” on Sunday, February 21, 2016. Ilg placed 2nd Overall losing to 21 year-old collegiate nordic ski racer from Boulder, Jamie Mothersbaugh. Ilg […]
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