I just came back from a nice, two day run to McLaren with my Questteam.
Saturday we where in Fairbanks to drop the Fooddrop – 37 packs in total. As I saw them all standing there I asked myself for how long will we go out, but of course 14 dogs will be feeded.
Today I run a little 20 km loop with my Questteam in the heat of the day 
– in the morning it was -38°C and when we left about -30°C.
So my team looks like follows: Tang, Herring, Ibex, Eagle, Wondar, Suhmo, Libby, Casper, Franky, Jack, Buckley, Hobo, Kritter, Free, Eagle (M) und Lucky.
As we start withn14 dogs in the Yukon Quest I have to find two dogs which stays at home.
Sab will start this weekend at the Kuskokwim 300.
Today evening we draw our bibs – Sab draw number 16 and me 9, so we can start at 10:30 h and 10:16 h respectively – but we have to be in the starting area already by 6:30 h for the vet check. Yesterday we got some snow and according to the weather forecast we’ll get a cold race as they anticipate temperatures below -30°C.
The dogs will come tomorrow directly to the start so they can have an extra night in their own doghouses.
Today Sab and I only did a small run (17 milles / 27 km) with the dogs which will run in the Copper Basin 300. The wheather is a little bit colder with -22°C and we had light winds, so I was happy that the trainingsrun didn’t lead as passing the magic Mile 8 (there the wind often gets stronger).
Otherwise it was the day of preparation – the big part was already done by our handlers (cutting and portioning meat, packing booties, blankets and the vetkits, etc.) – but there where always things to prepare.
Today Sab sorted the dogs out, after Dave and Andrew left, the teams had to reordered. In all we have now 4 complet teams in training. Then we redistributed the doghouses teamwise.
After noon I got off, in the sunshine by -20°C, for a 34 miles trainingsrun (55 km) with the following team: Skunk – Kritter, Ibex – Onyx, Kali – Lucky, Jack – Franky, Bertha – Ricky, Kiana – Susie, Elliot – Jasper und Nani. The run was almost unspectacular, expect at Mile 3 we saw a moose with her little only about 100 m beside the trail behind the willows.
