Monday, August 23, 2010

Those Yukon Meat & Sausage results in full!

1 Mile 1 Dog Caniwade

1 - Kyla Johnson - 17.34
2 - Sandro Bumblebee - 18.34
3 - Maible Boksa - 23.46
4 - Moe Boksa - 24.18

1 Mile 1 Pet Dog Bikesplashjour

1 - Karine Grenier - 13.32
2 - Maren (let's fall over again in the pond) Bradley - 14.51
3 - Janet Keller - 17

Deb Knight - Scratches - quite a lot actually, and a few bruises from the rocks

1 Mile 1 Sled Dog Swimajour

1 - Darryl Sheepway - 7.32
2 - Amil Dupuis-Rossi - 9.43
3 - Janet Keller - 12.01
4 - Deb Knight - 12.25

Robert Sifke - Scratched - dog took the other way home

1 Mile 2 Sled Dog Paddleathon

1 - Darryl Sheepway
2 - Ian Usher

Thanks to everyone for turning out and making it such a fun event, don't forget to buy stuff at YUKON MEAT n SAUSAGE - THE DELI
as well as from Aurora Booties, Icy Waters Ltd, C&D Feeds

Next Race - The Eagle Pack MONGREL HORDES, at Susie Rogan/Hans Gatt's on Gentian Lane, mid September, details coming soon.



Monday, August 16, 2010

Splashing Good Times - YUKON MEAT & SAUSAGE - The Deli Watersports Outing!

What better to do in the sun at +30'C than take a dog or two and go running through lots of water - exercise and fun (amazing that those two words are found in the same sentance!)

15 teams "competed" - well it appears Darryl competed, everyone else had a laugh, Grizzly was heard to comment later - "How come everyone else had so much fun ? all I heard was "Go GO!, NOOOO! don't stop, you can drink later, go, faster, GO!" I want a transfer, my paws are still smokin!"

Photos from Clark Rogers - thank you (erm results will come later - well ok , Darryl won the one and two sled dog (again...boring, and well done), Carine Grenier reprised her victory in the pet dog, and proof that guiding gets you fit, Kyla Johnson beat professional runner Sandro Bumblebee (is that really his name?) in the caniwade, in fact Sandro only just managed to stay ahead of hard-driving 7 year old Maible Boksa)

Canicross at its best

Kyla Johnson takes an early bath

Uh-oh, Big Pet dog starts to tip Maren Bradley in for the third time...revenge for the July Race comment of "ah, she doesn't run"

Just...Fun

Robert Sifke and Decaf (Smokin' Paws) enjoy the trail

Janet Keller and what looks like a small Polar Bear, driving for the next creek

Smokin' Paws 1 & 2 take Deb Knight just before her intimate impact with the local rocks

Ian Usher, with knee and elbow armour...hooray..."sense in action"! now If Deb Knight had that her crash wouldn't have left all those scabs...

"Jeez Darryl, it's not the Percy you know? and I'd like to have stopped with the other guys in that last pond, that Siberian had some good points on the failure of the Russian wheat crop because of global WARMING!"..."It's a RACE Grizzly! GO! GO!"

Grizzly, winner of this week's longest tongue competition


Maible Boksa makes a break past her Mum Moe - or just having fun in the water with dogs


Taking time in the Caniwade with man's best friend...what better way to spend a hot evening, does it get any better?

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Yukon Meat n Sausage Race ON, just a bit shorter

Due to unseasonably high temperatures your RM has wisely shortened the 2 mile to 1 mile.

This keeps all the ponds and creeks as they occur in the first half mile of the trail. There are at least 5 places on the way out (and the same five on the way back) where the dogs, and you, have no choice but to go through flowing water. It's not deep but it's nice and cool. At the turnaround, the deepest of the creeks (shin deep). it's advised you let your dogs stop for a drink (and anywhere else they want to cool off) - they'll probably stop there anyway.

Friday, August 13, 2010

YTG Clears Culvert, Ponds magically shrink

News just in from the trail - the 4 or more ponds have shrunk to 1 and a couple of damp patches. There's still plenty of water on the trail, what with the 3 creeks you have to cross twice, so no danger of overheating, and I still recommend a change of clothes as racers/monkeys are going to get at least moist!

Race On!!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

YUKON MEAT & SAUSAGE, The Deli - Dryland Race is ON!

Sunday 8th saw an intrepid Hugh Neff, sans any protective gear whatsoever, attach a dog to himself for the first time and get on his new bike, whilst Jon Lucas attached an awful lot of protective gear to himself along with two dogs and got on his bike, and Normand Casavant safely sat on a quad in support - and they took off down Sunday 15th's hot hounds trail!

1) Your hounds will not get hot
2) bring a change of clothes

Within the first 400m of trail there are about 4 ponds (I lost count) that cross the trail, or rather, they are the trail. You can't go round them, as there is no "side" to them as such; they extend way off the sides of the trail. But you can cycle through them, wetly - that was fun (no, it was, honest). The trail becomes hard sand and passes the FN encampment, then a gentle climb, across a shallow creek, then up the big sandy hill - once you are up there it is great, twisting and turning, a little up and down, and another creek, then another one, and then a BIG one with a choice of two routes to cross, take your pick but get back on the trail (in this creek Jon's front wheel stopped on a rock, rather than be hauled off, Jon jumped off, knee deep, nice n cooling), then carry on to the turnaround (there will be a quad and volunteer there for the race), and come back through all that luverly water and sand and race for the finish - except Hugh didn't do that cos his brakes magically got jammed on at the top of the sandy hill, and Jon didn't race very far at all after his rear tyre blew out at the bottom of hte sandy hill - a bike pushing canicross/caniwade back through the ponds. Beware the turn at the bottom of hte sandy hill, it's still soft sand and if you let the brakes off too early the front wheel slides out from under you (well, Jon's did).

Normand ran it on the quad and said later "That is excellent, your dogs cannot get too hot, I am bringing mine down here!"

It really is a fun, interesting trail. I suspect if you try to race it, you'll have more problems and be slower than if you just go and enjoy it. It certainly is not an "out n back" blast like Cadence Cycle's Drag n Fly Kennel trail.

RM is Simi Morrison, Timer Maren Bradley. Don't forget to buy many many DPSAY raffle tickets.

The post race BBQ is at Km 3 Annie Lake Rd, Normand and Carine's place, please bring food and drinks, BBQ will be fired up and ready.

Oh yes, race registartions, race start etc at approx km 15-16 Annie Lake Rd, at the pull-out where the road first meets the Lake.

Many thanks to Sponsors Yukon Meat and Sausage, the Deli, supported by Icy Waters Ltd, C&D Feeds, Aurora Booties, Grizzly Pigs Farm, and Yukon Ag Association.

Have fun, helmets mandatory (apart from canicrossers)