Why canicross?

I know everyone has their own kind of stress relief - this is mine. When we're running down the trail I can feel the sheer joy coming off my dog as she's taking in a million wonderful scents and my only thought is where is the next safe place to put my foot between the roots & rocks - all my worries just disappear. There's no room for them. It's just me and my dog. Running. We're in that moment together.  Sharing that joy and forgetting that the rest of the World even exists. Then we walk off the trail, dodging branches and picking our way through the bushes, until we find a big rock to sit on overlooking the babbling brook and we can't even hear the traffic noise anymore. It's just us. ❤ That's why I canicross.

We zoomed!

We don't generally do much running with our dogs during the month of August, but last spring I discovered that our li'l Buffy(from the Alaska litter - Sparkles x Oink) runs cool. She stays calm & pulls gently but steadily. So I decided to sign us up for the AUGUST ZOOMIES: Virtual Canicross Mileage Challenge and see if we could complete 31 miles over the course of 31 days. This morning we finished it!  She did awesome! We'll never be fast enough to win any races, but we had so many fun adventures during the last month. She has learned a lot and gained a ton of confidence!