Entries Tagged as 'Training'

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Mishap After Mishap

This past week I decided to take my small team on a run with my sled at my house – due to the large quantities of snow we were so graciously being gifted. I would have to agree that it wasn’t the smartest choice to take a dog team by sled on only four inches [...]

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Lengthier Run…

Yesterday morning I took the dogs out for a 4 mile run. Coleton, my brother, went along as well on his bike. He acts as my “backup” support, and it’s nice to have someone along with me.
The run took us about 70 minutes, but we took 2 REALLY long breaks of about 15 minutes. I [...]

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

More training yesterday…HOT!

I decided to go out on a short 2 mile run yesterday even though it was pretty hot. In the 50’s. The dogs did excellent, ran well, and listened. In only 2 short weeks I will be headed up to La Pine Oregon for Karen Yeargain’s Mushing Weekend with Kathy Miyoshi (mushing mentor), so I [...]

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Trainin’ In the Rain

Today I decided to take the dogs on a run in the pouring rain, and it was a blast. We only did 2.5 miles, but that was because my brother was also riding along on the cart with me. So altogether we had a combined total weight (rig included), of around 400 lbs. So each [...]

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

2007-2008 Mushing Season

Hello to All!
So far the season is off to a great start. The dogs and I have already launched off with a couple successful runs at about 2 miles a piece, which is pretty exciting for me. Last year we ended with doing 6 mile runs, so since we are already starting 2 mile runs [...]