As a kid, I read Jack Londons Call of the Wild, multiple times.

You kind of go inside the head of the lead character, Buck, and look at the world through a dog's eyes.

I had just always kind of had a dream about being a dog musher, and started with one dog pulling me on rollerblades.

At that time, I was a high school math and science teacher.

When I left teaching, I had 14 dogs, and then we decided to make a business out of it because it's a very expensive hobby.

We use Alaskan huskies, and Alaskan huskies are simply high performance mutts that over generations have been not to have shoulder injuries, hip injuries, or really any problems.

They run fast, they pull hard, and they have really big appetites so they can process a lot of food to build muscle and stamina.

I would say top speed for a dog team is about 25 miles an hour.

These dogs are super athletes capable of over 100 miles in a day.

Day after day.

Some of our less mature dogs would even run themselves to death.

Their desire to run is so strong.

So as the coach of the team, that's our job to regulate their speed, give them lots of breaks.

Working with sled dogs for 29 years, racing for about 25 of those years.

And they are super excited when they get in the starting chute at a race.

The start is always super chaotic.

Its super loud and crazy, kind of a sensory overload.

Dogs are really empathetic.

They pick up on our energy, whether we recognize it or not, or don't want to admit it.

So if we're radiating athletic, competitive energy, they're going to pick up on that.

The racing component was just like out of this world.

But once you get going and you start really going to speed, things calm down a lot.

So you're seeing the mountains or wherever you're racing at speed as well.

As well you're watching your dog in full stride.

You're just taking all that in.