Not as we had hoped.............

Big day today!!!!  Claude Bellerive’s race in St. Luc.  15 miles with 6 of our dogs and Claude loaning us 8 from Hermel’s (his handler) team!!!  We should be fast but the only problem we might have is that our best leader, Yeti, isn’t feeling well – so we are putting in Grace, another leader but not as fast as some as our other dogs, because if Yeti can’t do it he will have to switch Grace to run lead!

He left the chute and looked like everybody was running good – se we will se what place he is when he is finished – he went out 13^th out of 13 so the trail might be a bit chewed up by the time he is on it but it started out quite hard – the high for today is only 26 so it should have stayed good even after the first 12 unlimited teams and all the 6 dog teams this morning – tomorrow it’s supposed to snow for a few hours and then switch to freezing rain and then rain – so it’s a possibility it may only be a one day race!!

Well………….it didn’t work out so well – the worst problem was that our leader Yeti was sick and didn’t run as hard as he usually would and one of the dogs neck lines came unhooked during the race so Randy figures that when you stop and hook down that you lose a minute – so we are last with not too much time between us and the few teams ahead of us…………

Disappointing to say the least …………..we will see if there is another time to redeem ourselves tomorrow…………….