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my final Vert Gain was:  87,915′   (Everest x3!) total miles:  182.80 total time spent uphill: 2 days, 7 hours over 40 efforts.final result;  1st place 50-59,  11th OA out of 348 international racers pic courtesy steve ilg/south rib, Hogsback Durango Herald: What made you want to go after this challenge this year? ilg: 1)  Spiritual ignorance and […]

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pic by WF Master Student Kavík of ilg on Christmas Day CHURNING OUT consecutive Triple Day Workouts to surge at the month-long finish of the Merry Vertmas International Vertical Gain Race by Aravaipa Running®. RACE RULES: Gain as much Vertical Feet on your own two feet as you possible can from Dec 1 – Dec.25 […]

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  feeble ilg and my other competitors in the international Merry Vertmas Race (Dec 1-25) are likely ALL wishing for the same holiday gift as ilg!    currently have ascended over 55,000′ vertical feet since Dec.1 and feeling it.  edgy.  small shit bugs me. seems like Murphy’s Law is ilgs shadow.  probably about 145 lbs […]

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pic by ilg:  ilg’s DREAM TIME!  L-R: Bryn, Dewa, and Iyumi captured 3rd, 4th, and 6th respectively at Saturday’s Colorado State Middle School XC Championships in Denver, Colorado. it’s been an INCREDIBLE HONOR to coach these Ladies through a season that we had to piecemeal together with a few other dedicated parents from the Western […]

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GOT THE “W” at OPHIR PASS RACE again! after uh, like 3 decades!!!!

    SOOOOOO STOKED!   Might have just made the World Record for LONGEST TIME BETWEEN OVERALL WINS IN THE SAME RACE:   Nearly 30 YEARS AGO i won this precious, hallowed high Colorado pass race and could NOT BE MORE HONORED to SHARE the WIN with Race Director Pete “The Legend” Dahlie who CRUSHED the MTB […]

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might be a World Record!?!?

Published on Oct 04, 2020 by in ilg's vLog, Racing, Teachings

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so, this morning? ilg earned this… one of – if the THE – most coveted Trophies any true Mountain Runner could ever dream of holding:  The Ophir Pass Hillclimb Trophy (which is simply one of a billion jillion scree/talus rocks at the     this precious pic is of ilg and Pete Dahlie; the LEGEND […]

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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 […]

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  pic by ilg, L-R:  Podium Girls from Durango at Ouray Invitational;  Bryn, Dewa, Iyumi.  footage of their amazing race (see Results below) appears on my ilgVlog75,  publishing at 7:30a MST, Monday, Sept 21, 2020.   Steve Ilg YouTube Channel.        

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