Hello All!
It has been a little while since my last post - you can tell we are deep into training when I start to neglect the blog, website, and fundraising campaign for World Championships. First, I just want to give a sincere thank you to Kim Striebel for the most recent donation I received for my Go Fund Me page (I am raising money to help cover the cost of going to the World Championships in Bristol, Quebec Canada this October). I was truly humbled by her generosity, I don't know how to say thank you enough. I am almost at my target fundraising amount, and if you want to help get to that target check out the page at https://www.gofundme.com/kandusleddogs .
So what can I tell you about our training - well the weather got cooler. This meant some excellent early morning runs. It did heat up again however, so it has been a challenge running the dogs and keeping them cool. Eli decided to take the whole three dog team into a disgusting pond to cool off and drink. Yuck. Yuck. A few runs later, she did it again. Yuck. Hoping none of them get ill from that, but so far so good. I am going to have to make sure that this doesn't happen again. On the bright side, neither time was I dragged into the pond. I have to be grateful for that if nothing else.
I can say that with the first race of the season approaching so fast (this coming weekend, Jump River Run in Keenan, WI), I just do not feel like we have had enough time to train (even with all the time we have put in). I cannot believe racing is starting so soon - and it will be a roller coaster ride with a race almost each weekend until the beginning of December). I am just hoping the work myself and the dogs have put in will be enough so that we can be our best. We will continue to train each week during racing, but our schedule changes a bit, so that there is more rest for the dogs towards the end of the week (so they are fresh for heat of the race on Saturday and Sunday).
I think I say this often, but I will try to keep the blog a bit more up to date and include some stuff that is a bit more interesting than this. Hope everyone is enjoying the fall colors - they won't last long.
It has been a little while since my last post - you can tell we are deep into training when I start to neglect the blog, website, and fundraising campaign for World Championships. First, I just want to give a sincere thank you to Kim Striebel for the most recent donation I received for my Go Fund Me page (I am raising money to help cover the cost of going to the World Championships in Bristol, Quebec Canada this October). I was truly humbled by her generosity, I don't know how to say thank you enough. I am almost at my target fundraising amount, and if you want to help get to that target check out the page at https://www.gofundme.com/kandusleddogs .
So what can I tell you about our training - well the weather got cooler. This meant some excellent early morning runs. It did heat up again however, so it has been a challenge running the dogs and keeping them cool. Eli decided to take the whole three dog team into a disgusting pond to cool off and drink. Yuck. Yuck. A few runs later, she did it again. Yuck. Hoping none of them get ill from that, but so far so good. I am going to have to make sure that this doesn't happen again. On the bright side, neither time was I dragged into the pond. I have to be grateful for that if nothing else.
I can say that with the first race of the season approaching so fast (this coming weekend, Jump River Run in Keenan, WI), I just do not feel like we have had enough time to train (even with all the time we have put in). I cannot believe racing is starting so soon - and it will be a roller coaster ride with a race almost each weekend until the beginning of December). I am just hoping the work myself and the dogs have put in will be enough so that we can be our best. We will continue to train each week during racing, but our schedule changes a bit, so that there is more rest for the dogs towards the end of the week (so they are fresh for heat of the race on Saturday and Sunday).
I think I say this often, but I will try to keep the blog a bit more up to date and include some stuff that is a bit more interesting than this. Hope everyone is enjoying the fall colors - they won't last long.