Alaska

We are home now from trip number one. What a trip. Love it there in Anchorage and love our family there that looks after us. Lots of fun to visit them. Last Friday was Rachel's race day. She ran in the five dog race and it was extremely hot. SHe won her race but some of the dogs got over heated in the heat. She did her best but One of our biggest dog got hot. Rachel won two races out of two. Perfect record so far.
Leanne ran day one of her races on Sat. She ran the four dog race and the six dog race class. Her first race was the four dog class and she got tangled up while racing and had to stop to untangle the dogs. This was all it took to move leanne into Seventh place finish on the day. IT was a very bad situation for her. New dog in a new situation. Still dogs not going through the tunnels and over the bridges. Man it just never ends learning how to race them there. Leanne's six dog team was all female team and was really small in size. They were very small for leaders and the last four dogs were not that big either. But they were very fast. Yes they went very fast. Leanne was tied for second on the first day of competition. This is excellent position considering the field was very very competitive. On Leannes Sat. Race it was also very warm.
Sat. night there was a tremendous wind that blew 100 mph down the mountains and into town. Needless to say one night of winds like that with higher temps wiped out the race trail. Sundays races were cancelled so no races on Sun. Not good for us when we drove so far to be able to race. Our training while there wasn't the greatest this time around. We missed training mid week last week. Even Ben came out of retirement to race here. It was a great trip with many good runs and great races.
Now we stay home again and get ready for the Junior races coming up later in the season.

Junior northamerican
Junior worlds
Tok junior championships.

Busy yr to come.