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Old May 13th 08, 01:33 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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This goes into more detail than the NY Times article -
different audiences, I guess. Zack Steer's comments are
always interesting because he was on the nordic ski team in
college and his sister is on the US biathlon team, so he
knows a thing or two about exercise physiology and fueling
the machine. Apparently one of the Sweepstakes vets said
that Lance Mackey really, really understands dog exercise
physiology and knows exactly when to snack his dogs, when to
rest them, etc., to bring out their best. I'm glad this is
going on and think it will improve the sport.
http://www.adn.com/iditarod/2008/story/404261.html
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Old May 13th 08, 01:51 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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(Melinda Shore) wrote:


http://www.adn.com/iditarod/2008/story/404261.html

very interesting. The differences between endurance racing and
sprinting are always pretty fascinating, but I think articles like this
show the casual watcher just how much goes into sports with animals.

With all of the recent criticism of the horse racing industry, I like
reading articles like this, which are really looking at capabilities and
needs.

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Old May 13th 08, 02:36 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Janet Boss wrote:
very interesting. The differences between endurance racing and
sprinting are always pretty fascinating, but I think articles like this
show the casual watcher just how much goes into sports with animals.


I'm pretty happy that people are thinking more about
exercise physiology, because it really does make a
difference in how the dogs perform, their ability to stay
sound, etc. Arleigh Reynolds has a really good interview on
base-building in this month's Mushing magazine (quick scan
of contents he
http://www.mushing.com/generalstore/...uid=28&page=1).
Now, nearly any human competing in any endurance sport knows
something about base-building and long slow distance
training, but not a lot of mushers do, and even when we do
we don't know how applicable it is to dogs and how we'd go
about keeping the dogs' efforts low. Great stuff.

I should add that the annual ADMA Symposium in Fairbanks is
a weekend full of this stuff. I'm thinking about going back
this year - I learned so much last year, and being able to
watch Wes Rau actually manipulate dogs was so much more
educational than listening to him do it on an audio tape.
This is the schedule from last year's:
http://www.sleddog.org/symposium/2007/schedule.html
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Old May 13th 08, 06:41 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Rocky wrote:
It was interesting. They mentioned the incident you mentioned
in which one (or the other) faked sleep. These guys seemed to
have a pretty good rapport.


There's been some high-profile trash-talking but I don't
know if it's for entertainment or for real. In an interview
on Iditarod Insider King said Mackey had gotten lucky with
his breeding program and then Mackey spent the winter saying
that he was out to prove that he wasn't just lucky - that he
knew what he was doing and worked his ass off. I think
maybe King didn't get his whole thought out, or at least I
hope so, because it really was an assy thing to say. I
think Mackey put the "luck" question to rest by beating King
in the Iditarod, when Mackey's team was pretty raggedy
throughout most of the race and King's was performing
beautifully. The Discovery Channel has also made a
documentary on this year's race and I think will be airing
it in the fall. Maybe you can bug them now about showing it
on Discovery Canada.

But one thing about Lance Mackey - he sure talks a lot but
I've never, ever heard him say in much detail about how he
trains.

BTW, everybody's got dogs for sale right now (this is a sad
time of year). Not sure why but King is asking more money
for his dogs than Mackey is asking for his, but they're both
asking for a *lot* of money for their dogs.

Anyway, in general I find that the mushing stuff tends to
have more coverage of dog physiology, nutrition, and so on
than other dog activities I've been involved in. I put
several years of ADMA Symposium recordings on my iPod and
listen to them on long flights.
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