okay gang… new daddy here is gonna toe another Start Line tomorrow: i’m doing the 10k race of theFlagstaff Marathon i tried to ‘jog through’ this new course the day before yesterday…uh, yeah right…my “jog through” saw my heart rate to 183, i re-pulled the hamstring injury from the Hopi Races (which did not, miraculously, […]
there are some GREAT shots of Imogene Pass Race at this link: Imogene Pass Pilgrimage thanks to Bruce Higgins of Flagstaff!and to NATRA (Northern Arizona Trail Runners Association) leader; Neil Weintrab! oh, you’ll have to first “wade through” the 13 AGE DIVISION MEDALS which Flagstaff brought home from Imogeneto get to the scenic shots of […]
In my last DL,i made a veiled invitation to Master Student Alan “L’Gaté” Ludgate to submit a Race Report on our shared Pilgrimage to the Mother of all Mountain Races, Imogene Pass last Saturday. Like the impeccably brilliant Master Student he is, L’Gaté immediately produced this offering for all of us. May each of us […]
Namaste My Precious and Noble Warriors! Just back from the Imogene Pass Runand had an absolutely SPECTACULAR pilgrimage to my old h(om)elandand one of my premier mountain venues before i broke my back. my “race” was quite emotional as i TAF’d it would be. hec yeah it was tough and HUMBLING on my ego seeing […]
i had found my Prayer Wheel; and it was my own flying feet… – an injured coach ilg, in the final 800 meters of the Old Oraibi 8k footrace The START LINE was a scratch of blue cornmeal across the weather-smoothed dirt in the America’s most continuously inhabited village Old Oraibi. Race Director Juwan Nuvayokva, […]
Pre Race Day of the Old Oraibi 8k; Hopi Reservation, Arizona, last saturday. *** “If something can be remedied,Why be unhappy about it?And if there is no remedy for it,There is still no point in being unhappy.”– ShantidevaGuide to the Boddhistva’s Way of Life one of the images that will be sure to flicker past […]
To work with changes now, in life: That is the real way to prepare for death. Life may be full of pain, suffering, and difficulty, but all of these are opportunities handed to us to help us move toward an emotional acceptance of death. It is only when we believe things to be permanent that […]
Imagine that you had gone all your life without ever washing, and then one day you decide to take a shower. You start scrubbing away, but then watch in horror as the dirt begins to ooze out of the pores of your skin and stream down your body. Something must be wrong: You were supposed […]
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