• 11/12/2022
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VIDEO: In the Orlické Mountains, the extreme stage of dog sled up started<

"We currently have 73 competitors registered, but only those who complete the long track - three hundred, and there are approximately ten.They are the best of the best.The second race is for 200 kilometers.The conditions are good this year.The track starts at Jedlová at the pension Kristýna, where it leads through the village of Deštná, through the bunker up the hills, passes "Gábl" shed, continues through Sherlich, Velká Deštná, Fivest and returns through the mansion, "describes the racing circuit Andrea Müller Kučera fromteam.

As Šediváček's Long was born for the first time with dog sled races in the Orlické Mountains took place in February 1997.The day before the start, however, Pavel Kučera escaped two dogs.One of them - Siberian Husky named Šedivák - was shot by a local resident at a distant village.Despite this, the race started and in memory of this sad event was named one for all for all the gray Long.

Mushery awaits several stages until Saturday and on Friday also a mandatory bivouac in the paddol at the pension Zámeček:.Who wants a tent, takes it who does not, will only do a bust and cover with Celt, of course there are good sleeping bags."

For the organizers, the preparation was not easy this year.Due to Covid there was uncertainty whether Jedlová would see this traditional Musher holiday this year: "We did not know if we could organize the race, how to evolve the epidemiological situation.Only a week before the race, when we knew the rules for organizing sports events, we could decide to take place to take place.It was a very short time to prepare for some competitors, so they didn't come.In addition to Czechs, participants from neighboring countries - Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Switzerland arrived and we have one racer from Latvia."

Dogs are for mushers like a family

On Tuesday after five o'clock in the afternoon part of the competitors set out on the night stage of Šediváček Longu.Measures over 50 kilometers.Among the starters is also a multiple champion Roman Habásko, who arrived with a large nineteen -member dog pack.He has had a lot of experience, even from the world's toughest races ever.As he reveals, some go to 600 or even 1000 kilometers, sometimes there are twenty -five -degree frosts, while temperatures at night drop even deeper.

He got to mushero about 28 years ago: "I bought one dog for pleasure so I could walk with him in the mountains.Then it grew into such a passion, I have been racing since 1996.I started with four dogs, then added more and today I drive with ten to fourteen, depending on how it goes."

Source: Diary/Jana Kotalová

How long does it take for a dog to go to the race?"As it matures, I will start to prepare it slowly for the year for a year, and in a year and a half should be ready to go big international races.We have success, but it's just the icing on the cake.I am a multiple champion of the republic, as in sprint, midy and long, we won the local Šediváček Long race several times, we won the World Championship, Europe races, but that is probably not the most important thing that one does, "says Roman Habásko.

"In my case it is a lifestyle, the dogs are my family, they are my children, I live with them and they with me, I ride with them after races, we train.One has to give them time, especially when they are preparing for some top races, then I spend with them eight to ten hours a day in training, in the care of them, in feeding and, of coursethe harness or when I sleep in the car.This is my second home, someone buys a nice family luxury person, I am a big yellow van, "he says with a smile.

In the winter on a sleigh, in the summer on a quad bike

And trains not only on snow.It is a year -round preparation."In the summer we run on carts, four -wheel wheelchairs.So I use a lot of engine for training.I have the engine off and let me pull.It is more comfortable and safer for me even for dogs, yet it is so robust and heavy that it can even stop the twelve or fourteen -year.And I can easily help them uphill, "adds Roman Habásko.