2019 Beargrease 120 Dog Sled Race
Joanna and the dogs did a super job Sunday and took third place in the Beargrease 120 dog sled race. This was the first time I stayed home, sitting on pins and needles wondering how things were going, while John went with her to help with the dogs and drive the truck and trailer to the two checkpoints. The eleven years we lived in Canada, John had to stay at camp to watch the generators and plow snow, but now that we live in Grand Marais, MN for the winters, he can go with Joanna to her races. He spends a lot of time training with Joanna all fall and early winter and now gets to enjoy first hand the fruit of their labor at the races. Our son Jonathan called me Sunday evening saying Joanna had called him after the first leg of the race during the rest time so he could call me and ask me a question and he could relay the answer back to her. ( I had given them my cell phone to use during the race) I excitedly asked him how she was doing. He told me she might be in third pla...