January 25
Cold one last nite – varying reports on how cold but certainly near and/or below “0”!!!! I stayed snug as a bug in a rug but naturally, on the coldest nite we have had so far, the furnace quit working at 4am and Randy had to get up and go in the back of the trailer by the dogs and change the propane tank – and then of course it wouldn’t start working again for whatever reason… so he spent an hour working on trying to get it warm in here again – it’s been fine since but every once in awhile…………….
Everybody else trained today (I didn’t say it out loud but I was really glad we trained yesterday when it was warmer!!!) so the morning was full of dog activity – we helped get both of the other teams out then came in for breakfast. The trail should have been harder than it was yesterday because of the cold temps – it was barely OK as far as being soft yesterday when we ran and we did end up hurting one girls feet with fissures – the little cuts they get in the “palm” of their foot from pushing down thru soft snow when they run. Hopefully with good foot meds she will be healed up by this Saturday – she is a leader and point dog so pretty critical to the team – Speaking of critical, we have only 16 dogs on the truck, and you can use 14 for your pool of dogs to choose from for the 7 days of racing – I mentioned that Dannika is already out until we do shorter distanced racing so that leaves only one more to cut from the pool – we don’t have much margin of error!!!!!
trained on Tuesday and are trying to figure out who the lucky "14" will be still not sure
in to town tonite - I felt sick last nite and today so good we trained the 8 miles with all the dogs yesterday - tomorrow we drive to Jackson and then camp there for the nite and then have the extremely intense vet check on Friday and then drive back here to Alpine for the race start on Saturday -
sorry not so much information lately but we only have come to town in the last 3 days once and then I am having to deal with bill from the VA - so will maybe have better connection soon at the other race sites!!!
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1 comment:
Glad to hear things are going ok and yes, glad you trained when it was warmer! It's so odd now to not be able to talk to you regularly on the phone! I got spoiled with our talks multiple times a week! Not too much going on hear, so you're not really missing anything, but we seem to do really well filling up a couple of hours talking about absolutely nothing and everything. :)
I hope the race sites have better coverage so I can hear your voices more often! I'm hoping that the website for the race will do frequent and timely updates. You know how I like to "stalk", I mean track you...
Love you both so much!!
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