Tons of new Snow Today!

Deep snow today! Snow and Snow which made the trails slow and hard pulling for the puppies.

 That's just fine, though.  So for this year we have had fast trails almost all the time and the dogs have been moving quick steadly going faster and faster as they have grown older.  It has been on my mind to start training them to pace themselves better.  The deep snow has made this easier.

 The deep snow made for slow, steady work and I have no complaints about how the pups did.  Though, I have a lot of females in heat and that did make for some distraction.  Anyway, the slow speed let my mind wonder and I started thinking/firming up my dog plans for next year.

First thing is a big trip down the Yukon River to at least Unakleet but likely to Nome.  That will be in the spring.  But I also need to race 500miles to make sure I am qualified for Iditarod the following year.  I will likely run the Knic 200 and the Don Bowers 300.  With the pups I would run those f=very conservatively with lots of rest and short (hopefully) fast runs.  But in Dec. there are a couple of tune-up style races of shorter length, for those I would like to race as hard as I can and see just how competitve these new pups are.

Well... that's as far as I got in my dog-run-mind-wonder.