Got the team out again for a quicky... funny that we never considered a 12 miler to be a quicky before... it always took us some time to make the full run but this time it was only an hour and seven minutes!Our average speed was 10.5mph and our max speed was 25.1! It really didn't feel like we were going that fast!
We headed over the lakes side this time for some easy trail and a change of scenery. The dogs have been doing so much work I wanted to give them a nice break, allow them to set their own pace and have some fun. Well, setting their own pace was not entirely up to them... I had to put in my drag quite a few times to keep them slowed down.
After this run I'm pretty positive that Griffin's issue is speed. He was fine to start but bottomed out quickly. Once he was out of the team he dropped back even more so I slowed the team to match his pace.
The babies had little trouble with keeping up and were rockets at the start. Little Cali took off on her own track parallel to us, kept us in sight but hauled her little butt down that trail so fast I thought it was going to start melting!Thani was keeping up with the team, Boreas is showing new confidence and Hermes is pretty content to run behind the sled for now. They all did great today...
It was so weird to be done so quickly. I am not used to that... our team has changed so much and continues to do so each season. I'm really curious as to what the next year will bring but if these guys speed up any more I'm going to have to put my foot down and teach them to be slower, either that or add more weight!
12 miles
8 dog team (MollyAnna and Iggy stayed home again)
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