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How To Train The Race Sled Dogs for the Iditarod

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    Part of the video series: How to Race Sled Dogs in the Iditarod

    From Quick Guide: Basics of Dog Sleds

    Summary: Learn tips on how train sled dogs for a dogsled race in this free instructional video clip about the dogsled race in Iditarod.

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    Lachlan & Linda Clarke make up TEAM CLARKE: We first became interested in dog sledding in 2002 and have been avidly training dogs ever since. We have 6 races under our belt,...read more

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    " Hi! I’m Lachland Clarke on behalf of Expert Village. I would like to invite you to visit our website at www.teamclarke.org. We start training in the Fall after Labor Day with an ATV or four-wheeler. The engine is running, it’s in gear and the dogs are pulling fairly hard. We start out with reasonably short distances, a mile or less and each week we add on a mile until we get 4 or 5 and then we start adding 2 miles per week until we get to 10 and then we add 3 to 4, sometimes 5 miles. So the mileage increases exponentially due to the fact that that is how the dogs seem to adapt to the new training season. We want to have our dogs pretty fit. They get a really good base or muscle and conditioning with the short but show hard pulls. Puts a good work ethic into the dogs before they get on the sled. When they get on the sled, the sled feels much lighter, probably akin to pulling a match box after pulling a car, so that really seems to help the dogs mentally as well. They are mentally and physically prepared to take any kind of work load that you give them and we’ve really seen it work this Fall and early Winter in training. We worked our dogs much harder and more resistance early this season and it has really paid off before they are climbing hills much better. Their speed over the flats isn’t as fast but their climbing fast so that is a pretty big bonus for us. "

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