Didn´t wrote that much the last time, but it happens not that much either...We train the dogs, looking all day at the weather forecast and hoping that the cold and snow will come soon :) Training is going good, all 16 dogs are in good mood and we, too. With the weather forecast it´s like usual, one day they promise cold for next week, the other day they promise warm for next week. So normally it´s senseless to look there, but we never give up. But this morning we had the first little ice on our lake :))) So at least the water in the lake is cold enough that it could freeze if it would become colder...
The last days Uschi and Steffen were at our trainingsrounds with their dogs and that was a good training for both of us. We could train a bit head-on-passing and even the youngsters did it in a fine matter. Below you see a small video from different training runs. I lough in the end of the film because I was filming and Uschi was filming the same time, too ;)
The first drawing of the Finnmarkslopet startlist is done. I got the bibnumber 21. Not the worst and if you think that a few always withdraw, I advance maybe a few places ;)
Today we got a big parcel from our sponsor Ägna AB. It was full with Aktiv Hund tablets to provide joint problems at our dogs.
Many thanks to Ägna AB for that, we are really thankful for that sponsoring!!!
Samstag, 1. September 2012
Here a small film from our training today. Did something wrong while loading up the film, so you have to follow the link and can´t see it directly on our blogg...
I stand up at 4:45 this morning only to see that it´s too warm for training - 13,5 degrees :( So i went to bed again, that was not that bad ;) At 7:30 I decided to stand up and for my surpise it was only 10 degrees :))) So out to the dogs, harnesses on and off we went for training. And this time I took the camera with me, so here the pictures of the second training this season :)
Guess who is the free running dog in front ;) My sunshine Susen of course. Even she is happy that the training has started.
The dogs get some water. Sean and Jaja in lead. Do you see the nice and fancy Polaris ATV in the background? Training with the prize for winning Finnmarkslopet makes even more fun ;)
....even we started with our fall-training. I forgot the camera for sure and a few other things - like always on the first trainings run. But I´m excused, standing up at 4 o´clock in the morning is not really my time! There it can happen to miss something ;)
It was 9 degrees, so perfect condition for the dogs not to overhead. Now everybody is satisfied and from tomorrow the forecast promise colder temperatures in the morning. So maybe I can sleep until 5 o`clock tomorrow and try not to forget the camera :)
I was invited from my sleddog club to speak about the journey with our dogs from puppy to Finnmarkslopet. It was the second time for me to do thid and I was quite nervous... But all went well and I even got some applause - I don´t now because they were happy it was over or because it was not that bad ;)
These two days were very interesting and on the evening we had a lot of fun with old friends.
