Moonraker 10km - Sun 8th July 2007

Cush and I at the last minute decided to run the local Moonraker 10km, Urchfont, Wiltshire. At 5pm on Sunday 8th of July we started the race, having sought permission from the organisers allowing us to run with a dog. You must always ring before entering an event to ensure they allow dogs, as some races take place over private land or close to dog - unfriendly areas. Anyway it's wise advice as you wouldn't want to travel and then find that you couldn't compete.

We had a great deal of interest in what we were doing and as many runners run with their dogs away from the race scene and had never heard of canicrossing, so after swopping contact details we started our runs. I say runs as with the assitance of Takoda it would be inevitable that Cush was going to be running on ahead. We received geat encouragement from the local supporters as we passed through the village, and there was good support from the race marshalls, who did a great job of keeping us all on track. From the village we plodded along country lanes and tracks and eventually onto some nice trails in the woods before rejoining the roads back to the village. The village was still full of spectators at the finish and Cush and Takoda got a rapturous welcome home. I got the odd shout as I crossed the line a few mins later.

Cush finished 12th in the ladies event in a time of 48mins 49seconds
I finished in 57th in the mens event in a time of 50min 56Seconds

Takoda was the only dog in the event and then organisers were persueded to present Takoda with a finishers medal, Cush opted for a Moonrakers Biscuit.

Hopefully there may be a few more dogs next year, we will certainly be looking for any competition.

Hello All,

Welcome to the Canicross Trailrunners Blog Site.

This blog is intended to keep you updated with not just what the Canicross Trailrunners are up to but also to what else is going on in the Canine world.

But first a little history to the Lamen pack.

I became a dog owner 11 years ago, a short while after getting married to Cushla, we moved to Germany with my job in the Army, I took Cushla away from her favourite sport of Rowing and she wanted to keep up her fitness with another sport and that became running. But due to my job and my frequent work vacations to other foreign countries, Cush decided that she wanted a running partner and what better partner than a dog.

After researching breeds we found that Huskies are born runners and would be ideal for us. Many months passed until we found a puppy that was right for us and then we found Sashka. Sashka is now 11+years and mellowing in her years.

A year or so later and once we had raised money for the campaign for Pet Passports and the court case was successful, we added a rescue husky from Spain to our pack. Donjak was approx 2 years old when we got him and he has unfortunately recently passed away after a long 8 year battle against epilepsey.

Takoda joined us from Wales 3 years ago and this boy is also known as Kriserliz Satans Angel, don't know if he is more related to satan or the angels.

Lastly our new addition to the pack is Rajarani Tarevachine, or shanay for short, this girl is running our lives at the moment and at 6 months old is running round the house at all times.