pic; chose this project near the Lodge so ilg could water the Plant and Tree Beings while upgrading this very popular access trail to our C(om)unity Herb Garden… since ilg was Dewa’s age (18), ilg Realized that, ‘wow, I can either spend the rest of my adult life studying in college then working in […]
Steepness Matters. yeah, kinda sure not a LOT of guys/girls in the 60+ AG are flashing V4 on a 45-degree overhanging panel specifically engineered to spit your fat ass off just trying to get off the ground. recent studies prove that most 60+ people regardless of gender cannot do one pull-up. Or one Push Up. […]
a decade ago: for feeble ilg’s 54th birthday? ilg chose this Pose as the most important Yoga Pose to stay on top of for 50+r’s… kinda forget it’s name if it even has one (for 3 decades, coast to coast , ilg’s HIGH PERFORMANCE YOGA® Classes reset standards … and many of ilg’s pioneering efforts […]
Dewa being Dewa enroute to another Podium in the Adult Elite when she was 16.. 5km Intervals AFTER 4 hours of Pro trailwork at 64…want some? … yeah, feeble ilg ain’t Sawe.. yet? Sawe ain’t ilg… soooo fun to be alive these days! Bro… Seriously? 4’33”/mile for the marathon… ilg recalls when peep’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
feeble ilg LOVES QUOTES…. in fact, the second book ilg ever authored was THE OUTDOOR ATHLETE’S TRAINING JOURNAL (*1992/Cordillera Press) was all about quotes! the tea with that book? young ilg was OBSESSED with high performance; how much bigger could ilg make his feeble calves to win a BodyBuilding Competition, how many 100-mile weeks […]
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