Junior Training Camp - Poland 2001.
















Ania Bayer


Nanook
JUNIOR TRAINING CAMP POLAND 2001.


IFSS with Open Union of Sleddog Sport Association, Poland, during September have organized Junior training camp, at far northwest of Poland, in old school building in village Przymuszewo. Polarex BG had representative, Aleksandar Nikolic as an sleddog trainer and musher instructor. More than twenty Poland juniors visited camp with their 3-8 dog teams, equipment, carts, best Poland musher Bartek Gadziomski and most improved musher that season in sprint races in Poland Ania Bayer and two boys from Ukraine.

First training was every morning in 6h, and later in 9h dogs were fed for first time in day, because these are preparations for sprint races where dogs eat twice a day, for faster metabolism.

After breakfast Edward Schumet, Slovenia and I would go for long bike ride for our own conditioning and in afternoon Edo would run with juniors Canecross and myself would work with theirs lead dogs on improvement and trainability. Trails are found in nearby woods made of rare pine and birch trees with sand as an ideal base for dogs. After runs, in local lake we would swim special dogs under special regime by dr. Veterinary medicine Gosca Szmurlo. If weather conditions allow we would do evening training, and than feeding and resting. After short walk with dogs before sleeping we had musher meetings with talk about teams work, training and make plain for tomorrow : long or short gallop, short power training with two kids in carts, or leader training with lots of turns, or facing teams, passing or few teams in group, night trainings or day off.

Point was in expanse of youngsters experience, which would bring success to them and to the sport.












Dog feeding






New sprint lines



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