Good evening all. I received a phone call a few minutes ago from Coach Ilg asking me to let the Sangha know that he will be off the Net for a bit. The Woody Wildfire started this afternoon and is quickly spreading due to high winds. Two Tree Manor is in the path of the […]
Taos Pueblo, New Mexicoi wrote a poem about this place in my book, “Pagosa Speaks”photo by coach *** Since i basically “rolled the boulder over the WF Cave” by moving DL to a subscription formati must say,i am impressed by the Special Warriors that have Sensed i am throwing down and that NOW is the […]
THE QUOTE OF THE DAY: “During the intervals, nothing focuses the mind better than potential loss of consciousness. The 15 hard/15 easy splits were a bitch. Much more so to me than the 45 sec on/1 min off sets. I am not sure what I was seeing at the end of the last set because […]
Beautiful, Sacred Sandia Peak towering above Albuquerque, New Mexico. This photo, by Coach, was taken from his “Ai Imawa Platform” near Jemez Dam, a few miles from where his parents still live and where he lived when he wrote the book, THE WINTER ATHLETE, before moving to Los Angeles at the request of his Teachers […]
Coach Ilg racing for his new team; Red Rock Racers, manufactured a scintillating victory in hellishly hot conditions at the 26-mile, 5,800′ Bill McLain Memorial Sandia Crest HillClimb last weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Coach, captured here by Heidi Snell/Visual Escapes Photography, exchanged his usually kind and giving nature for the look and performance of […]
This Path is magic…yesterday, i responded elegantly to an Angry Dragon because i Sensed the Fear behind his Anger at me. This morning? That Dragon has been Met, Calmed, and now Walks the WF Path again with more CHI FORCE than ever before.photo above: Coach practicing the Ai Imawa posture; Meeting The Dragon. These Taoist […]
Namaste Noble DL Warriors… i TAF it important to your own Practice to offer you a smidgen of the WF World’s version of “Coach’s Hate Mail” that now greets my email boxes in the mornings since rolling the boulder over the DL Cave. i TAF it beneficial to your own Practice to see how i […]
Well, you don’t see this everyday…dis ain’t no “Nautlius” or “Gravitron” bullshit… Today i am taking you all back to my “Golden Boy of Boulder” era…the mid-eighties when i was among the fittest of the fittest of all multisport athletes anywhere; capable of finishing in the top 20 of a mountain ultra marathon and cranking […]
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