Wholistic Fitness

9:42 am: when ilg runs? the simplest, most fragile of things open my heart, filet it wide open, and my spirit just soars into Father Sky…what IS IT about running feet massaging Mother Earth that shakes our Chakra’s so?! who CARES about health, longevity, fitness? to be able to run along the treasured forested paths is ENOUGH by itself! ilg hasn’t been running through decades because i reckon it might tack on a few more years to my incarnation…ilg runs because running is Pilgrimage, it’s more than the Seat of my Soul, it’s the Karmic SWEAT OF MY SOUL!

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Game Face on; ilg at 50…still toeing the Start Line and making the Game chi-full…”i’m totally stoked to finish 2nd place in the 50+ AG here at the DWC Championships…considering that Ivan (Unkovskoy) was the only person to beat me over the course of 4 various cycling events? That’s like finishing second to Ned Overend or John Tomac!…for a yoga teacher who trains at a fraction of the volume of these guys do on a bike in THIS mecca of world-class cyclists? are you kidding me? this New Old Daddy is TOALLY stoked! and i don’t even have fancy bike racing equipment! i see my second place as a huge HOORAH! for all c(om)men men who don’t train on bikes a lot but rather rely on what i teach, Wholistic Fitness™!”

here is how i did it, stage by stage:

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pic by ilg this morning before heading off to my 50-mile Road Race Championship where i had the bulls-eye on my jersey…

and…WAY more importantly?

what a 5th Birthday Party Day it proved for ALL of the humble ilg clan today..
my full race report ONLY for Members…

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i TAF’d i was going fast tonight…

i pretty much did go fast…for an old yoga guy on a not fancy bike…

covered a hilly 15-mile course with wind in 36 minutes…

that’s nearly 25 mph average…solo…no drafting…just you and the clock; that’s why Time Trials are called, “The Race of Truth”

evidently, however, in this tiny town at the foot of the San Juan rocky heights?

it wasn’t THAT fast…

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If only ilg had a dime for everytime i get this, “Oh ilg! Man, i only hear GREAT THINGS about your yoga classes, BUT…well, i am SOOOO in flexible, i’m gonna have to wait until i get more flexible before i show up at your class!”…

inwardly whenever i hear that? my mind defaults to two thoughts;

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” My Daddy is up there somewhere….”

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Ilg only has one Direct Experience with Lance Armstrong. It wasn’t much of a moment…yet it was profound. If my personal encounter with Lance was like the one I’m about to describe below? Then, love him, tolerate him, or otherwise, you gotta admit; this King of the TDF (Tour de France) has certainly entertained a heccuva Karmic incarnation affecting millions – perhaps billions – of people, many of them Cancer warriors and warrioress’s. And that is enough to make this feeble yogi bow at the (maybe not so) Lotus Feet of Lance.

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o, my 82 year-old m(om) just underwent emergency surgery for a hernia which migrated into her bladder…i’ll be going down to NM this week to look after her…oddly, enough, this new yoga sequence (of my mom’s urgent care) has made me miss my just dead-Dad (a year ago) even more…How I will remember my Dad? Strong, self-centered, and could make me feel like I really mattered more than anyone in the world.

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