Waiting At The White Oak Classic
Jan 10th 2009
wolfmoonsleddog
Midwest
Location: Northome, MN
Time - 6:07pm
Temperature: 9 degrees
Conditions: Mostly cloudy
Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, highs in the teens, lows in the single digits
I am currently sitting in the car at the Northome checkpoint of the White Oak Sled Dog Classic, waiting for Blake and Jen to arrive. We were at the start in Deer River earlier today seeing them off and then decided to head two checkpoints down and see them come in. This is the first race of the Season for MCK. Blake and Jen are each running the 10-dog pro class (130 miles total). Somehow we are picking up wi-fi so we can access the internet while we wait.
I see the first team arriving but it’s definitely not Blake or Jen…the dogs look houndy from what I can see.
Training is going well. I have been running with 8 and 10-dog teams, depending on the conditions. There are three main leaders I am running - Fiona, Inga and Ziggy. They will most likely be running the Beargrease 150 with me. You can read about them on the MCK website. The pages are out of date at the time of this writing but Joe (one of the race handlers today) is updating the site.
Fiona - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Fiona/fiona.html
Inga - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Inga/inga.html
Ziggy - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Ziggy/ziggy.html
Hmmm, I seem to be having trouble picking up the wi-fi. We just moved over to give Blake and Jen room when they arrive.
You can follow the White Oak on http://www.whiteoakclassic.org/apps/joomla/ I just checked and it doesn’t show who the team who just arrived is. Guess we’ll have to wait and see on that one.
I have entered the Wolftrack Classic Sled Dog Race, which starts in Ely this March. I’ll be running the 8-dog, 60-mile class and so will Jen.
This is going to be a late night…we still have the a 3+ hour drive back to the kennel after we see Blake and Jen get in. Thank goodness for energy drinks! We’re all kind of hyper here now so I don’t think there’s any danger of us falling asleep any time soon!
Along with Joe, we have Mike here. Mike is handling at MCK during the month of January. And I’m here with Karl and his younger brothers, Simon and Spencer who are helping me in taking care of the kennel while Blake, Jen and Mike are gone.
Tonight is the January full moon - the Wolf Moon. This is what my micro-kennel is named after because my first husky, Aspen, was born during the Wolf Moon of January 2000. Unfortunately it is cloudy right now so we can’t see it but tomorrow night was perfectly clear so that I hardly needed a headlamp.
Well, I’ll sign out now. We’re going to look at stuff on YouTube. How random is that?
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