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<blockquote data-quote="3Roosters" data-source="post: 86409" data-attributes="member: 1351"><p>For sure! 8-10 days straight with little to no sleep. One mandatory 24 hr rest at one of the checkpoints and I think 1 or maybe 2 mandatory 8 hour rests..other than that..i think a lot of the teams have done the 4 hours running, 4 hours resting game plan....but...some deviate to their own game plan on how they are doing and how their dogs are doing. I guess&nbsp; the dogs get vet checked before starting the race and vet checked at each of the checkpoints...if there is something amiss with a dog, they have to drop that dog at that checkpoint and run the rest of the race without that dog.(Of course dropped dogs are picked up by other members of the team for transport back to their home kennel). Most mushers/dog teams start with 16 dogs and finish the race with 8-12. A lot of the times mushers drop a particular dog at a checkpoint that isn't health related at all but rather musher sees something in a dog that he or she feels can travel faster/easier without a particular dog. Fascinating stuff. To heck with high priced football/baseball athletes! I'm much more interested in watching the REAL athletes! The dogs and the mushers!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="3Roosters, post: 86409, member: 1351"] For sure! 8-10 days straight with little to no sleep. One mandatory 24 hr rest at one of the checkpoints and I think 1 or maybe 2 mandatory 8 hour rests..other than that..i think a lot of the teams have done the 4 hours running, 4 hours resting game plan....but...some deviate to their own game plan on how they are doing and how their dogs are doing. I guess the dogs get vet checked before starting the race and vet checked at each of the checkpoints...if there is something amiss with a dog, they have to drop that dog at that checkpoint and run the rest of the race without that dog.(Of course dropped dogs are picked up by other members of the team for transport back to their home kennel). Most mushers/dog teams start with 16 dogs and finish the race with 8-12. A lot of the times mushers drop a particular dog at a checkpoint that isn't health related at all but rather musher sees something in a dog that he or she feels can travel faster/easier without a particular dog. Fascinating stuff. To heck with high priced football/baseball athletes! I'm much more interested in watching the REAL athletes! The dogs and the mushers! [/QUOTE]

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