Yesterday I had a great idea to go and train with 2 dogs at the same time,
so I took after almost one year the kart out of the garage.
I already knew this was almost going to be mission impossible with Iota =p
She is just one crazy dog at the start,...
My father and I prepared the dogs and wanted to put them in place,....
putting them in place means:
- struggling for almost half an hour
- iota jumps 3 times out of her harness and collar at the same time
- yukon who begins to be irritated because of all the struggling
- Iota who doesn't want to stop screaming and always keeps twisting in every direction
- and last but not least me beginning to get very angry at her and therefore she finally starts listening and calms down.
and 5,4,3,2,1,.... we took off =p (finallyyyy !!! )
the result was not that bad, only yukon was distracted for a few seconds while passing a pedestrian and his dog.
We had to brake very hard, what a power and speed when pulling +/- 180 kg !
can't immagine mushers working with more than 6 dogs !!
you can watch the video by clicking on this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE0BL3J9Jik
15/09/2012:
To keep the tradition alive robin and family organised also this year a run and bike competition, +/- 7 km with a lot of hills.
Alot of teams signed up this year to compeet for "fun".
After the start was given team Philippe wery-Benoit Natalis started like crazy and Robin and me stayed with them for about 4 km (after those 4 km my legs were dead =p) .
We kept up a good speed and finished second after the super team benoit-philippe,
3rd place was for Marc Vandueren en Arnaud Leonard they ran a great race too !
Everything went well and we laughed a lot, we were soooo tired afterwards but it was worth it. ( before the bike and run we prepared the trails for the long and short distance, children, bike and run on foot)
16/09/2012:
we organised our own canicross at banneux, no doubt a super hard and technical trail with more than 150 m difference in height. (long and short distance)
In the morning some silly people enjoyed themselves a lot by changing the entire beginning of the trail, so we had a lot of work to make the trail perfect again.
For the rest everything went flawlessly !
Had some nice sponsors who gave away food for the dogs, umbrella's, coupons for going to the spa,....
Robin ran the long distance (6.5 km) with Iota, he ran a super great race ended up first with a time of 21.35 min ==> 18 km/ h !
He ran the short distance (2.8 km) as well with Kozak, with some little errors he still ended up second in a time of 10.34 min ==>15.5 km/h .
think for the first time in canicross history the short distance was tougher than the long distance.
I was very happy with my race with yukon,
After 3 months we finally find out what was wrong with him and changed dog food, apparently he did'nt digest well the previous brand,.... He wasn't quite the same dog anymore,... always tired,... cramps,....
but that's al in the past now !
So here we were running ( flying) the short distance, yukon pulling like crazy,.... downhill,.....
And yes,.... I did fell,.... and landed with my face on a huge rock,.... (auwtchhh)
And yes it did hurt ! =D nevertheless I got back on my feet and ran with a super the yukon a great but very hard race. Ended up first in 12.17 min ==> 13.7 km/h
Want to thank all the participants for being there !!
