BEDHEAD SLED DOGS

Every once in a great while you train for something for a long time, put tons of time and money into something, dedicate your life to it, and then it turns out happening just like you were hoping it would. That is how the East Meets West Dryland Challenge went for us this last weekend.

The event took place in Brainerd, Minn., about 150 miles north west of the Twin Cities. The course was on the Brainerd International Raceway grounds, a multi-use facility, but with great trail potential and good spectator angles.

We were lucky enough to pull the #1 starting position for day one, getting us out ahead of the competition. By the end of the day we had covered the course in 7:02. That was good enough to put us about 1.5 minutes ahead of the nearest competitor.

Day 2 was one second slower, a 7:03.

Our overall time was 14:05.22 for 3 miles

The thing that amazed me most was Grody…he was awesome! Handled every distraction like a champ, took every command like a pro, and pulled honest and hard the entire 2 days. I wanted to treat him because I was so proud but he seriously didn’t even realize he did anything special; to him that’s just what you do when you put on the harness, run hard and fast.

I also got to meet some really cool folks from around the country too that are involved in dryland mushing. The list is long so I won’t bore you with names but it was fun to rub elbows and talk dogs with some folks I certainly do respect.

Anyways, the only photos we snapped were of us in the starting chute, everything else on the trail was video.

If your interested in times, places, photos, etc. you can always refer to http://www.isdra.org/.

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