backdrop: after winning the 60+AG and 2nd OA at the Shiprock Marathon Elder Run, ilg has not taken a rest day. today did Lower Body Strength Training; can’t load video here, so see my Strava or IG or FB. the technique that you see feeble ilg engaging during Leg Extensions is a RECOVERY […]
old and withering, yet, still light years stronger across the 5 Noble Fitness Disciplines of Wholistic Fitness® than most guys 40 years younger… Wholistic Fitness® creates kinesthetic and physiologic plasticity as the decades fly by whereas Sport Specificity decreases it. hit the Iron Temple the day after a high intensity trail run…knew a recovery CV […]
Each Spring at my trail work kingdom (aka; Edgemont Highlands…kinda like the Beverly Hills hovering over the relative paupers of Durango) over which feeble ilg reigns solo Chief Trail Director/Worker there arrives what ilg has termed, “Dumpster Season”… a 2-week period within which the rich (and often snippety) residents of Edgemont Highlands are graced […]
breathing into my EMR* knew it would be a doozy of a day for this ol’ man…just didn’t realize how DEEPLY the Deities would assist ilg to create literally the most perfect – no, not perfect; just DIVINE – ending day to Dewa’s first collegiate spring break. knew ilg had to get and keep the […]
when it finally sunk into feeble ilgs last few brain cells still knocking boots up in that precious hemisphere we know as the Skull that Dewa was literally gonna Be Here Now back in Durango? Alongside ilg? My former Shadow returning from the months long darkness of Her at college 1,205 miles away? Reckon it was […]
Event: Langlauf Nordic Marathon 30k (one our nation’s longest running Nordic Marathons at nearly 50 years) Date: Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 Location: Durango Nordic Center Elevation: 8,793′ Snow Situation: 58% of recent snowpack decimated in past 78 hours Race Course Status: Extreme – the first lap of the 4×7.5 kilometer course absolutely terrifying for […]
Dear Editor, Our hamlet beneath the Diné Sacred Peak has and is suffering chronic, unmitigated murdering to everything sacred to us few remaining native winter athletes. How many recall our 3 Nordic Jumps (5m, 10m, 15m), on Chapman Hill? Only land scars and timbers remain. Purg? Not worthy of the nickname. Please rebrand as […]
Most Noble Sangha! In your feeble teacher-of-nothing’s latest Vlog104 which premieres 4/12@6a MST at the new Tribal Headquarters of Steve Ilg’s YouTube Channel ilg mentions this most Noble T(om)e: Hopi Runners Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert Winner: David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize In the summer of 1912 Hopi […]
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