Thanks for the Butt Dog

Her name is Heini and she is my Heini....at least for a few months. I'll start from the beginning.
We had a great weekend at Ken and Lori's. It was pretty warm on Saturday, so I only took my teams 2 miles each. I ran the main string first and then added Solow and Dessie to Tune, Oak and Sosa for the second team. Solow and Dessie added a lot of speed. Sosa has been quitting, so Tune and Oak were happy to lead a team that actually helped them out. The rest of the afternoon was just spent hanging out. We had lunched, shared techniques and just had a good time. When we packed up to go home, we loaded nine more dogs than we unloaded that morning. In those nine were 8 puppies and one loaner female. All nine dogs go back to Lori in the spring....our job is socialization. The two year old female, the loaner, is from a "Butt" litter. She was on the track for their main team, but has had some confidence problems stemming from an accident. Her name? I know, I know...I laughed for a long time. I've started spelling it "Heini" as in "Heineken" because that sounds halfway legit. She'll be a big help this season, so I'm happy for the chance to use her.

I'm not running again until Tuesday. Last week, we ran hard Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and then the next Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday(yesterday). We did 4.5 miles last Thursday, took Friday off, only did 2 miles on Saturday (yesterday) and wont run again until Tuesday because I want them to have a break. Temp permitting, I'll do 4.5 this Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Friday's run will probably only be 3 miles if we're able to run fours before and after. After having Friday off, only running 2 miles yesterday and not running again until Tuesday will allow them a nice breather.

The new pups will make life exciting for the next few days until they get used to the routine. And of course I'll update on the Butt dog!