A non-music post here, but I had to inform the world of my latest excitement.

I woke up early on Saturday and despite the below O temperature, decided to take my dogs for a run.  I usually try to go at least 2-3 times a week, even in the winter.  While I was running through a snow covered field near our house I suddenly had the stongest urge in the world to be pulled by my dogs on skis or a sled while I ran with them.  My dogs, Sally (70 lb hound) and Zoe (50 lp terrier mutt), love to pull and love to run.

When I got home I throught more and more about this and decided that my life had new meaning with the possibility of being able to do this incredibly fun new sport with my dogs.  I thought about what would be the most practical way of going about it.  I’ve never been cross country skiing so I had to do a little research about what’s out there for this sort of thing.

I found out the sport is called skijoring, and I would just need some sort of a ski to do this, as I already have harnesses and a cord to connect my two dogs on one leash.  I wanted to get something short and wide for control like a snow shoe, but still be able to be to actually ski and climb hills.  I settled on the Karhu Meta ski, which is an all terrain ski-snowshoe hybrid that doesn’t require a special shoe.

The next day I took the dogs out to a trail and brought a plastic sled and they could pull it with ease!  I sort of surfed but then just sat down and it worked great.  It was incredibly fun - they already knew my commands from running with me so much.  The school district was closed (no work for me!) Monday and Tuesday and we went out both days and just had a blast.  My skis should be coming via UPS sometime next week, so I’ll let you know how it goes.

Also check this video out on Alaskan Skijoring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsvdAwPeJxg