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Howdy all!
Just got off the phone with Mikael!
He left the last checkpoint (which is just for signing in and out, not for resting) Jotka, 15 minutes ago (15:14)! Woohoo! He has only 53km left!
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He sounded quite tired, but happy with the team´s performance. He said he didn´t even know in which position he´s curently running and all he cares about is not pushing the dogs too much. He rested them a bit more carefully during the entire race until now, just to make sure they are happy and willing to keep going.
The fourth dog that was dropped, which I could not find out, was Dogge, the only boy among the four dropped dogs.
He also proudly said that (his favourite) Timone (the main leader, who started really being a leader at age 8) is running better and better as the race progresses and when I asked him if he put him in another position at all, during the entire 1000km journey, he replied briskly: "no way!", and added: "sometimes I had to put another dog beside him once in a while, otherwise he ran single lead mostly". Atta boy, Timone! I wish I was there to scratch you behind your ears, when you lead your team safely across the finish line this evening.
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On the other hand, mabye better I am not there tonight, I would cry like crazy :)
So here´s to: Timone, Tahti, Cassie, Blackie, Baffi, Turre, Stuffe, Rudi, Musti and Mikael - Have a safe and fast finish!
Katerina
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