Late Fall Blues

The Late Fall Blues have struck the team!

Feet are sore, attitudes are down, and training is in the pits!

But this isn't all that uncommon, actually we seem to go through it every year to some extent.  This year seems a bit worse because the team is so young.  They have no idea that it will get better in just a few short weeks.  And the in experience is really effectin my young leaders the most! 

They aren't listening, they are running on the wrong side of the rode, they are stopping to drink at every puddle (rather than taking a quick drink and keeping on the move), they are stopping to play with the Swing dogs behind them, etc, etc... Everything they can think of except going down the trail.

I was getting really MAD!

But then- thanks to some good advice from younger brother- I rembered to have fun!

So I have swapped some things around in the kennel so I can run my old main leader Goldden again (Pippin was running him but now he will run Beatrice instead and still keep Fluffy- the winning pair in last years Jr. Yukon Quest).

Andy is going to go back and run with Charlie and the puppies.

And we are going to take a week off "real" training!  The dogs that have sore feet will get a chance to heel up.  The ones that are good are going to go out on a bunch of short, REALLY fun runs.  And everybody is going to have fun and take it easy! (including me!)