Hi everybody, thanks for all your warm toughts while I was on the Quest 300 it helped alot.
Well it's been 2 weeks since I finished the race, I had time to reflect(is this a word?) it was a great experience.
The race started pretty nice and calm, just the way I like it, there was a lot of people at the start line, holy moly!!!! thanks to everybody who came to support me at the start that was just awesome, the banners where so good. So the beginning is down the Yukon river and Takhini river for 40 miles(i think). I ended up camping somewhere in the middle of Whitehorse and Braeburn(checkpoint). It took me about and hour to bed my dogs down make them some thick meatty soup and then I guess I was suppose to sleep, well It was a little chilly to go to sleep, so I decided to gather wood and make my self a fire, it ended up being a huge fire, it was pretty comfy, anyway got going again 5 hours later, got toBraeburn checkpoint at 10:30 and decided to rest for 8 hours, when I got to checkpoint I was a little down cause I had to drop my sweety Zip, my chearleeder Raven, and my big elephant Charango. Eventually I got going on my way to Carmacks, that was a freaking long run mentally, your going through the chain lakes wich seems like a hundred lakes, a that point I only slept for 15 minutes since the start of the race, and I tought am I lost, am I going in circles, what the hell, then I told myself ok Joce relaxe at this point it was time to camp, put the straw down, dogs got cozy, did the usual melt snow for dog water, make big fire again for me. This time I slept for 1 hour dozing off in front of the fire.
Eventually got to the Carmacks checkpoint, rested there for 8 hour and I actually slept for 3 hours. Left Carmacks sometime around 6 ond my way to McCabe Farm stayed there for 4 hours to rest, before leaving McCabe the officials informed me of overflow. So I left on my way to Pelly Crossing, it was a nice day, sunny and warm-ish, anyway I mushing along waiting to run in this overflow, and there it is a little overflow some creek crossing and I think thats it? so we keep going for another hour and here it comes to my left, big wide overflow and I think this is what there talking about. We come face to face with the OVERFLOW, and my dogs say no not today and I say well sorry we gotta go, so I started walking in front of my team in so far the water is only ankle deep and smoosh its freakin knee deep. This sucks, just keep going, I pass floating Quest markers finally we get on the other side. While we where going through the overflow June decides she is going into her heat and wants to start flirting with the boy's and trust me my friends this was not good timing. Anyway got to Pelly in good spirits rested 6 hours and got going for the final leg, I camped at the halfway point wich is a bunch of cabins called Stepping Stone, the cabins are opened up for the quest mushers to sleep and eat, the hospitality is great, I was suppose to stay there for 5 hours, well I ended sleeping for 6 hours and drinking coffee for 1 hour. The Stepping Stone people are better then a 5star hotel. Anyway eventually got going on my way to the finish line, got to Pelly and My friends Janice, Ariel and Glenys where there waiting for me. That was great!!!!
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