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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 -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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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 -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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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. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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