Iditadrawing
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Well, the starting orders are now known and Cole will be going out lucky number 61 (see photo above of her drawing). That’s lucky right? To go out 61 out of 71 mushers. It’s not ideal, especially given the trail report the mushers heard today, little to no snow across most of the route. HOwever, if there is one key to success we have learned in dog racing it is that challenges will ALWAYS be numerous, and it’s how you face them that determines your chances of finishing. Cole feels ready to face whatever challenges await. She only has two goals: one is to have no dogs injured or killed, and the second is to finish. Nothing is for sure, but she and the team are as trained up and ready as they can be, and they’ll do the best they can. Here are a few pictures from tonight’s banquet. We’ll try to keep the updates coming as often as we can.
A part of the banquet was auctioning off bottles of wine with labels in the mushers honor. Here is Cole’s bottle.
Cole got to sign numerous programs, posters and other paraphanalia.
An always fun part of racing is seeing old friends. Here Cole gets silly with her Jamacian friend Newton. They ran the yukon Quest together last year.