Aliy had a hard time choosing just 12 athletes to bring with her on this race. The training squad is strong at this time of year and everyone is still in the running for races later in the season. As the CB300 is “only” 300 miles long (although the toughest 300 miles there are!) Aliy was looking for a bit extra speed in the team as this will be raced at a faster pace than the 1000 mile races to come.
Aliy’s team mates this weekend will be: Commando (5), Junior (5), Sanka (0), Amber (3), Violet (4), Razz (0), Chevie (2), QT (1), Jefe (1), Perky (1), Champ (4), Decaf (0). The number in brackets is how many CB300s the dogs have under their harnesses so you will see a total mixed bag. Aliy has with her three race rookies: Sanka, Razz and Decaf – right up to four hugely experienced dogs: Commando and Junior with five CB300s and Violet and Champ with four.
To those sponsors and fans of the dogs that didn’t make this team: please don’t despair! It is early in the season and your dogs have contributed so much to get this team to the start line. Allen is at home and will be taking teams out (temperatures permitting!) to keep the rest of them in training and ready to step up.
Find out more about each athlete on the Dogs page.
GO TEAM!
It may be cold outside but the SPKENNEL team is HOT!!! Go bro’s and gals. Bring it on home.
With all that talent at SPK it must have been hard to narrow it down….looks like a fantastic Team….bundle them up and 3, 2, 1 GO SPK!!!
Thanks ever so much for this post – WOOF WOOF WOOF!!!
Have a grand race! Show them all how it’s done SPK!!
GO TEAM, Hi, from Florida,Brita
Yay Decaf! Good boy. Go team go. Safe travels on the trail!
Great team picks – so excited to see novices in the race.