Our  Nuchok of Seppala in a photo by Shelly made an Ezine cover of the Midwest Skijorers Club.

 They  organize the Skijor/seld race at the Ham lake snowbowl that we will be attending as our first race, 5 K 4 dog sprint race. our objective is to get around the course non-stop. Not sprinters and  training for this amounts to running 2 four dog teams 5 K every day  for 6 days now, we will run again tomorrow, not run Friday and race Saturday, we have been loading and driving to the trail head, two reasons for this.
1, A clean fairly flat trail 5 K uninterrupted no road crossings etc. and
2, get the teams used to that routine of loading and traveling.
 Run times have improved each day, although computed mph is off the mark I think for a good showing compared to previous years race times,, The chosen training trail is an old rail road bed so no big hills, should be similar to the ham lake course so I would think the training run times to be in the ball park to what we could run there.... Assuming the leaders will deal with the distractions that a race brings.. They may not want to run into what to them looks like a crowd of people at a finish line or run out a start chute with people all around.. We do not get out much, meaning to say a lot of our running is in desolate open field snowmobile trails.
 We shall see...