And we're under way for the 2006/2007 season; training has started. While this is an exciting time, it's also one of the most frustrating -- it's these early season runs, before the dogs have the whole routine down, when the energy is super-high, and dogs are out of control, chewing harnesses, tuglines, each other, and my clothing. It takes a little longer to do almost everything because the dogs are so difficult to control. And the runs are a little slower because they're also not in peak shape yet, even though we only took about 6 weeks off this year.

Anyway, off we go.