Femundsløpet is over and it is time for analyses and thoughts. The positive parts first, we managed to get two teams to the starting line after tough diarrhea three days ahead of race start. All but Elton was fit enough to start. During the race my team was happy and worked steady all the way, and i finished as nr 29 with 8 happy dogs in the team after picking up two teams the last 10 km of the race. Aslak finished with 6 dogs at the place before me. It was a good pice of training before Finnmarksløpet, but I see there is room for improvements... I am not happy with the power/speed in my team on the first two legs. First leg I was among the slowest teams, and the team did not feel like a team, more like a group of individuals walking along in the soft snow. Luckily they got better. In the lead it seemed best with the small girls, Kari, Kaifa and Gunn taking responsibility, they where definitely the best dogs on the team. And I was specially happy to see that Kaifa 1 1/2 year was able to lead the team 3 of 5 legs and that little Kari  took responsibility.

Now we will start to prepare for Finnmarksløpet by running bigger teams and get up the speed in soft snow. In two weeks we have Troms Quest as a final test...

In addition to the dogs doing the pulling I also have to mention the fabulous handler team, Lotta, Kjersti and Robert that did a grate job of looking after me and caring for my food, etc. If anybody need a handler training program, call Lotta as she is the expert...