trainings run with luc

Luc is the first who can train again.

I made it fun for him means I let him run more ore less free. On the leash of course. I pedaled a lot so that he didn't pull that much.

The camera is mounted to the handle bar. Sorry for the crappy noise. It is a new camera, the "gopro digital hero3". I will descripe that thing in a later posting.



Kaillou and Quest still need one more week rest.

Why we probably can't go to Lake Placid

Friday night, at around 8pm the pack decided to have a little bit fun and chase a porcupine.
I spent halve of the night at the emergency vet in Concord.
Now more than 48 hours later just Luc seems to recover. He is almost back to normal.
But Quest and Kaillou are still limping and do not really eat. Their mouth is still swollen inside. Especially Quest makes me worry, the vet needed to cut one of the quills out of his foot and needed to staple the cut. The staple has to stay 10 days. He limps pretty hefty.

So - no training for at least a week for Kaillou and Quest. But more important then training is at the moment, that they do not have migrating quills or better that if there are still some quills in the body, that they are travelling out not in!
Luc has already one coming out of his nose. it sticks 3mm out.


Kaillou

Luc

Quest

Luc

Kaillou

Luc

Quest

Kaillou

Quest

Quest

rig race at the Hopkinton fair

After just 5 training runs with the new rig I decided to compete in the 4 dog rig class in Hopkinton.

And yeah – team SnowRunner run in to the second place overall, just 5! Seconds behind Ed Clifford’s hounds. And that with just three mid-distance Siberians! Next team was 30 seconds behind. Not to mention first place in the pure breed section. 13 competitors over all.

It was a very short trail, just 1 km. A distance Siberians still can keep up with the acceleration of hounds.
Everybody took it as training but still, coming that close to Eds team is great for team SnowRunner. And of course it is also because of the new fast rig!

Now I’m ready to go to Lake Placid.

here some more pics.

But really interesting was Lance Mackey's speech!