Rough runs

Hey all,

Well, the cold temps have been great to freeze the bogs, allowing us to use our other trail access...or so we thought. The trail was so rough with stumps, roots, sink holes, ruts, etc. that the dogs came back just wiped!! Poor Feather dinged up both of her wrists and came in looking like the losing end of a horror film. Yikes! Manny said it was so rough that he felt like he was in the spin cycle of a washing machine! He said we'll need about a foot of snow before it's safe enough to take the sleds on without busting them up. Yuck!

I took the dogs on an easy run on Sunday, to give them a break and just have a "fun" run. Then, I ran the second team...holy crapola, Batman!! They were NUTS!! It's always a zoo hooking up the second team, because these are our young dogs, our "sprint" dogs who we are training for mid distance, and the remaining race dogs. We took off like a shot, they loped the whole way (except for the steeper hill) and didn't need to stop once. They came in barking! I guess that would've been a great sprint run. ;o)

We're hoping for more snow soon, to get the sleds out. At this rate, the Tune up will be postponed if we don't get about a foot in the next 2 weeks. My first sled run may just be the Gin Gin...IF I feel the dogs are ready for it. We'll see. I still have a month left to decide.

The TRDMA meeting is tonight, at 7:30pm at the Two Rivers Lodge. Come on out, as we'll be gearing up for the races to come. :o)