Peanut First Win!

On Saturday Nov. 3rd, Mid Union Sled Haulers (MUSH) held a fun event out at our local state park.  After going back and forth on it, I was talked into taking Peanut out for the bikejoring race.  Every time I've tried to do bikejoring with her, I've been scared to death of it because Peanut is a very powerful dog that LOVES to pull and pull FAST, dart across the path where I almost ran her over, and dart after anything that catches her eye.  In other words, it's very dangerous.  I normally only do it on a scooter, which is low to the ground and a lot safer.  I decided to try it anyways.

I made it to the event at 9am, we started our run at 10 am.  This was my first time running on a path, we've only done urban and NEVER with other dogs around.  I had no clue what to expect from Peanut.  We were biker number 4 out of 6.  I harnessed Peanut up, put on my helmet, and got to the starting line.  Then we took off on the 2 1/2 mile course.

At first Peanut was unsure, we had two canicross runners coming at us and Peanut just couldn't understand what to do.  It took us a few mins to get back on track and off we went.

After we got going, I could hear biker number 5 right behind me, so I pulled over and let him go past.  After that Peanut seemed to get the idea of what she was going to do and pulled and ran like a champ!  At the 1.10mile mark one of the bike runners had a spill and the guy I was following had issues with his dog passing the spill (the person was just fine).  I yelled at Peanut to "on by" and SHE DID!  We were gone.  She was Haw and Geeing like a PRO!  I was so proud of her.  It's like she knew what she was doing.  At the 1 1/2 mile mark, things took a turn for the worse.  We were going up a small hill, and I was peddling when MY CHAIN CAME OFF!  For the last mile, I was under Peanut power, there was nothing I could do.  

Peanut was a pro by this time, and was running like a champ.  We came up on another team (biker #3 with 2 dogs) and stayed behind them until we crossed the finish line.  Peanut was WONDERFUL!  We finished in 18mins and 22 seconds and we took THIRD PLACE!  

Very proud of my little girl.  This was her first win ever, so from thinking we'd not even finish to taking third place, I couldn't be prouder of my little hellhound.