pic: Dewa Ilg (13) still crushin’ to a 2nd Overall Ladies (4th OA) in Saturday’s Coke Race#3 (Open Division; 5k) after falling and breaking her left thumb…Yoga was first Transmitted on a battlefield (by Krishna) and the first Yoga Student (Arjuna) was a soldier in a civil war. Learning to sustain focus on […]
Screenshot from Daddy’s GoPro footage which will be on my Vlog93, (NEXT Monday) of Dewa (13) at the shooting range of today’s 4k Pagosa Nordic Biathlon. Dewa would go on to win wire-to-wire the Overall in 16-minutes while shooting 14/15! Dewa raced through bottomless powder the day before to a 3rd OA in Coke Nordic […]
Sometimes you’re the HAMMER! and? Sometimes? yup, you’re the nail! Dewa experiences both this weekend! pic by WF Master Student Kavik of Team SteWa (Steve and Dewa) after both got podiums at Saturday’s Southwest Nordic Cup Series Opener in Pagosa Springs, CO. The next day however? Not so much! Saturday, Season Opener for the 5th […]
Steve Ilg’s YouTube Video link: https://youtu.be/U5p0GaaTcA8 Premiering Monday, December 7, 2020 at 6a MST! under 12-minutes; treat you to my Crew Leaders’ insider look at Durango’s acclaimed “Sky Steps” and then s(om)e technical laps up my backyard mountain; Hogsbag, which will be pivotal virtual racing terrain as i Toe the Cyber Start Line […]
pic by Jenni Annesi of Dewa putting the screws to an undefeated girl from a much larger city/program during Ouray’s Quad XC Meet on Thursday… Dewa would go on to win wire-to-wire in Her first ever Overall Victory in XC Running! pic by Jenni Annesi of Dewa and Daddy/Coach after Dewa’s amazing WIRE TO WIRE […]
Parkour at 12,400’+; 4 Peaks/2 Hours w/Dewa! what a Sacred HONOR it was to – after nearly 15 years – revisit my old h(om)etown of Santa Fe with Dewa and just SLAM the CHI across 4 of ilg’s once go-to high peaks in just over 2 hours! most memorable m(om)ent… nearly 60 year-old ilg and […]
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.“ – Confucius pic 1: my Chi-ldhood drainage; Junction Creek watershed fr(om) the summit of Cumberland Peak 12,388′. what was YOUR Chi-ldhood watershed? see the entire GoPro footage of my 50-mile, 6 1/2 hour bike/run workout the Monday AFTER this week’s ilgVlog! pic […]
“We only do well the things we like doing,” – Colette as quoted in Steve Ilg’s THE OUTDOOR ATHLETE’S TRAINING JOURNAL (1992/Johnson Press) leading pic by Tina Maria Vallez of your feeble teacher and Sandra Lee who created the Navajo Nation Community Fundraiser as we prepare to deliver the first of several food shipments directly […]
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