Lisa Frederic

“Skiing behind a team of dogs allowed me to study them for hours, and my understanding of their personalities blossomed as I saw them perform under stress or face new challenges on the trail. I saw who was brave all the time and who put up a good bluff. I saw them working hard to ignore a pest or boost the spirits of their running mate. I saw them being lazy or holding back until just when they chose—and then giving over their whole heart and soul to pulling. I learned who ran best in wheel and who was most content just being somewhere in the middle of the group. I learned that coaching a troupe of dogs, to work them as a team, was much mor complex, delightfully complex, then I had ever imagined.”
― Lisa Frederic, Running With Champions: A Midlife Journey on the Iditarod Trail