Ely Wolf Track Race

Joanna did quite well at the Ely Wolf Track Dog Sled Race.  There were about 30 entrants for the race and Joanna came in 6th behind Clayton Schneider, the vet from Dryden and two other of his speedy sprint teams.
Joanna was using it more as a training run for 6 of her dogs that had not run in the Midnight Run and were going to be include in the ten dogs team for the Copper Dog 150 mile race in Michigan the following week.

Though they were not her 6 fastest dogs, they all performed well.  It was disconcerting at the finish line, however, when one of them threw up and would not drink any water.  Later, we realized that the dogs had picked up a bug at the vet check the day before and the virus began to spread through the rest of the dogs.  Joanna was so disheartened as she realized she would no longer be able to compete in the Copper Dog race, the main race she had prepared for all winter.

So, we headed back home to Canada to try to nurse all the dogs back to health, even using IV's to hydrate some of them.  She is hoping they will be well enough to compete in the Beargrease race in Duluth next weekend.  They have a week to recover and train, so it is cutting it close.  We shall see.