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Chart Used While
Training for the Iditarod
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Name
of dog |
Miles
traveled |
Total
time in minutes |
Your
weight |
Dogs
weight in lbs. |
Sled
weight (aprrox.) |
Snow
depth (average) |
Rate
dog’s performance |
Dog’s
rest time to recover |
Dogs
used to run with |
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<insert
dog’s name> |
100 |
580 |
179
lbs. |
75 |
115
lbs |
4” |
10 |
2
hrs. |
7-14 |
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<insert
dog’s name> |
100 |
580 |
179
lbs. |
89 |
“ |
4” |
9 |
2
½ hrs |
7-14 |
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“ |
100 |
580 |
179
lbs. |
101 |
“ |
4” |
9 |
2
hrs. |
7-14 |
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“ |
100 |
580 |
179
lbs. |
85 |
“ |
4” |
7 |
1
½ hrs. |
7-14 |
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“ |
50 |
300 |
179
lbs. |
90 |
“ |
4” |
6 |
2
¾ hrs. |
14 |
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“ |
50 |
300 |
179
lbs. |
87 |
“ |
4” |
9 |
3
hrs. |
14 |
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“ |
50 |
300 |
179
lbs. |
112 |
“ |
4” |
8 |
3
½ hrs. |
14 |
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“ |
100 |
580 |
179
lbs. |
118 |
“ |
4” |
9.5 |
2
½ hrs |
7-14 |
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“ |
50 |
300 |
179
lbs. |
99 |
“ |
4” |
7 |
3
hrs. |
14 |
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“ |
50 |
300 |
179
lbs. |
108 |
“ |
4” |
8 |
3
½ hrs |
14 |
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“ |
100 |
580 |
179
lbs. |
102 |
“ |
4” |
9 |
2
¼ hrs. |
7-14 |
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“ |
100 |
580 |
179
lbs. |
79 |
“ |
4” |
9 |
2
¾ hrs. |
7-14 |
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“ |
50 |
300 |
179
lbs. |
101 |
“ |
4” |
10 |
3
¼ hrs. |
14 |
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“ |
50 |
300 |
179
lbs. |
93 |
“ |
4” |
7 |
2
¾ hrs. |
14 |
Chart to Use While
Running a Race (example)
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Dog’s name |
Date |
Checkpoint |
Dogs |
Miles Traveled |
Miles left to go |
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<insert dog’s name> |
March 4, 2002 |
Eagle River |
18 |
20 |
1,080 |
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<insert dog’s name> |
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<insert dog’s name> |
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<insert dog’s name> |
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Explanation of
Chart to Use While Running a Race (example)
1) Date: This allows you to see at where you are at what day, so you know how many days you have traveled so far and if you have a good pace set or if you need to slow down or speed up.
2) Checkpoint: This allows you to see where you are on the course and all other information about how your team is doing at this checkpoint, which includes all other information listed on this chart.
3) Dogs: This allows you to see where you dropped dogs or gained dogs and where.
4) Miles Traveled: Here you can tell exactly how far you’ve traveled, although this is not perfectly accurate if you go off-course, it is pretty accurate, and works best at checkpoints. It also allows you to see if you’ve set a good pace or traveled a good pace over the last few days, using date, also.
5) Miles left: Allows you to see if you should slow down and keep energy, take your 24, or speed up. If miles left is more than one thousand, you probably won’t start pushing your dogs as hard as they can go, whereas if you had ten miles left to go, you would probably run your dogs as hard as they could go in order to get the best finishing time possible.
Explanation of
Chart Used While Training for the Iditarod
1) Dog’s
Name: We used this to allow Paul to
know which dog had done what, which includes how they performed, how long they
rested, and all other information in our charts.
2) Miles Traveled: We used this topic to show and let Paul remember how far he had let his dogs run and which dogs had run how far, since the number of miles traveled can vary from dog to dog
3) Total time in minutes: This allows Paul to see how long it took for a dog or a group of dogs to run a certain distance, as verified in Miles Traveled .
4) Your Weight: This allows Paul to see how much he weighed because if he were to find out that his dogs were slowing down, he might realize that he had gained weight, and that might have slowed them down.
5) Sled weight: If the dogs slowed down and Paul didn’t know why, then he could look at the sled weight. If it increased, that would explain for some of the extra time it took the dogs to run their distance
6) Snow Depth: If there’s 10” of snow, it will probably be harder for the dogs to run than if there had been 2” of snow, and this could reflect on the times that it took the dogs to run, so we have to record this.
7) Rate Dog’s Performance: If you notice that a dog’s average performance is going down, you may need to train him more, and he might even be hurting the team.
8) Dog’s time to recover: Recovery time is an important part of running a dog race, for you would obviously lose if you had to rest for 16 hrs each mile you ran. So, using this, you can see how long each dog has to rest before they get back to their normal activities and heartbeat and how awake they are.
9) Dogs used to run with: If you have 14 dogs instead of 2, it will probably change the run time. And since this can be a large contributing factor, we have to record this to see how many dogs work the best for time taken to run.