
VIDEO: 500-km race a ‘magic carpet ride’ for winner
And the winner is …. Rick Wannamaker of Didsbury, Alta.
At 5 a.m. Friday Wannamaker crossed the finished line of the 2015 Canadian Challenge Sled Dog Race in La Ronge, Sask.
“It was a weird sensation; it was like a magic carpet ride for most of it and got to the end there at night in the dark and stuff it was just kind of a feeling, a good feeling about it,” he said hours later.
He explained that sometimes a dog race is a struggle with really cold weather and rough trails or the dogs aren’t running well, but that wasn’t the case this time. “Things went pretty darn nice, it was nice. And the trail was wonderful.”