Last weekend Taisto Thorneus organized a trainingsrace in Kiruna. The first in the beginning, it was a very good organized trainingsrace with perfect trails who were even perfect marked. It was (nearly) impossible to drive wrong. We were 7 teams who were starting saturday at 11am in Kauppinen. Jörg started with 8 dogs and I with 7 dogs, Didi was limping a little bit and so we decided to let her at home. The trail was about 56 km on the first stage, then we had to stay for 30 minutes and drove further 35 km to Taistos camp. Our dogs ran like hell and we stood nearly all the time on the brake. We didn´t want them to go faster then 17-18 km/h. At the camp the dogs had 15 hours rest and we were pampered with good food and a very (really very) warm cabin were our beds were. After a nice evening we went to bed early and at 4.30am the night was over. Going out for feeding the dogs. It is very nice to drive a race together, so one could take care of the dogs and the other was preparing the dogfood. Bartali, Gira and Sivtsov were limping a little bit and I catched a cold (already on friday) :(( So we had only 12 dogs left and only one healthy musher. We asked Taisto if it would be ok if Jörg will drive an open team and I and the three dogs take the scooter home. It was ok for all others. So Jörg went out with 12 dogs and I with three dogs at the scooter. Jörg had a lot of fun with his team and he had to stay on the brake all the time. So all in all a perfect weekend and a perfect training for us and our dogs. Specially for the youngsters, it was there first time sleeping outside and beeing on a foreign trail. And btw, Taisto won his own championchip closed before Jan who drove Milos dogs ;)
Jörg and his team on the river
In the woods. He was that fast that the picture is blurred ;)))
On the river again closed behind another team
Mats Pettersson
Hugo with Taistos second team
Jörg with Jaja and Sean in lead
Jörg again, he has his big gloves on it was really cold
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