Training has been going well. Last week we had a great run in the White Mountains with Mike Ellis. Our plan was to run out to the divide, a little over 50 miles, camp for a couple hours and then run back to the truck. Plans changed when we hit nasty wind blown conditions that were a little punchy for the dogs about 38 miles into the run. At that point we decided to spare the dogs the difficult travel conditions that could injure them and head back to the truck. Instead, we had glorious 76 mile run and the dogs felt stronger with every mile we passed.. just the momentum we needed to make Cody go ahead and bite the bullet and sign up for the toughest 300 miles in Alaska!...
Cody and the dogs will be running the Copper Basin 300 on January 8th. This race starts in Paxson in the Alaska range and does big loop south through the Copper River Basin and Lake Louise Areas before heading back north to Paxson for the finish.
This week will be spent getting drop bags all ready for each checkpoint. You can see below that there is a big pile of stuff that needs to be organized which includes, booties, dog food, human food, hand warmers, extra gloves, sled runner plastic, cooker fuel, headlamp batteries, dog blankets, and the list goes on and on.. will be a busy week getting organized and doing our last training runs.
The race can be followed on their website at http://www.cb300.com/ . The race start will also be on the local radio which can be heard online at http://www.kcam.org/ . Thomas Robertson will be handling along with Paige on the race, so they will try to update the blog.. that is if Paige can figure out how to use that new smart phone and can find a hot spot in the small communties along the trail. We heard the race may have GPS SPOT trackers on all the racers, so you can follow team Squid's progress in real time.
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