Training-start sep-oct. 2011

Finally I could skip the mitella, that had carried my newly operated shoulder for the last month. It still hurts, but I dare to start train the dogs -and start running again. 

My shoulder still doesn't allow me to go long distances, especially not on the MTB, since I can only hold on to the steer with one hand. It becomes tirering, and it is a bit risky :-) yet.. If You don't sometimes "risk your life" You don't know when to value it  :-)

Madsen and Grizly are just being trained for their reckonvalecens. Madsen has epileptic seizures, that appeared after a serious headtrauma. Grizly was hit by a freighttrain going 70 km/h. So they don't get to pull anything yet, I just let them run in front of me, when I run or besides the MTB. So they are my trainingspartners so to speak.

Ajax is almost 12, and of cause only works shorter distances, she has had shoulderproblems earlier, and we don't want them to reappear.Dizzy is my trainingpartner for more serious running and bicykling on the MTB. Something has spoked her, when snow and sleds gets involved, then she is instabil. But she is great to run with.

Our Young dogs; O'Nelly and Blackout are only 5 month, we have walked them and will soon be testing them in a harness, but they won't be put in the team for shorter runs before the age of 7-8 month. Until then, I'll run them and go with them shorter distances 1-3 km on the MTB, as they are maturing.

Our new team; Anna, Silver and Imelda are givin' the full amount of training. Right now I'm training Anna only on the MTB. She has had this weird way of running, not trotting, not galloping, but now she has develloped a lot and she has started to go trotting more and more. So I'm trying to "train up" her muscles in the back, just like we do it with young horses: Letting them run freely in a loong trott, were they take out the steps, lower their heads and make the back get up and help carying the body. I have a theory that this is good for dogs too.

Imelda and Silver are being trained in a two-dog-team infront of the cart, and sometimes alone infront of the MTB. It's my goal to be able to let Anna go single lead and have these two elephants as wheelers. My goal for the season is neing able to participate in the inofficial event KUNGSLEDEN 2012 and to take the polardog-test with the tree of them Nordic style.

My personal training is difficult due to my shoulderop. And I have a coupple of kneeinjuries too. But old horses shoulden't be standing in the barn, then they fall apart. So I run up to 5 km and I use the MTB. When the snow comes, I have to train up better skills in going skijoring with the dogs.

Are pleased with my progress today :-) First I ran 2 km with Ajax, the old girl. Then I felt so warm, that I skipped having another dog infront of me, and I ran 6 km alone in a moderate speed; 10-11km/h. My mind and my lungs/heart is set for going 10 km. But my knees starts complaining after 6 km. My shoulder doesn't like running at all, but since it ISN'T running (My legs do that), I simply doesn't listen to it.
Finally I drove Imelda and Silver 10 infront of the cart. Now I need a shower + a couple of the goood pills, the doctor gave me :-/

Below is the amount of km we have been doing until today; 6/10

• Imelda: 4+7+6+10 = 27 km
• Silver 6,4+7,5+7+6+10 = 36,9 km 
• Anna 6,4+7,5+6+8 = 27,5 km
• Nelly 2,5 km
• Blackie 2,5 km
• Dizzy 10+2+5 = 17 km
• Grizly 3+4 = 7 km
• Madsen 4+2+3,5 = 9,5 km
• Ajax 10+2 = 12 km
• Kirsten Poulsen 10+2,5+3+2+6+4+3,5+5+8+2+6 = 52 km