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From: Clint Martin
Date: 8/20/00
Time: 2:46:25 AM
Remote Name: 204.244.123.106
I don't know of any top teams that start fall training at one mile, unless of course heat is a problem as Jack Berry mentioned, and at 50 degrees it probably was for your pregnant female and your neutered male(probably a little overweight) I think your dog-handler was a little extreme, blowing up and suggesting that you were inhumane. If I were you I'd find a new one. For a dog at racing weight, 2 miles is not an extreme distance to begin training at 50 degrees, as long as you are running early morning or late evening when the sun is not direct. We usually begin fall training with 4 mile runs, but don't normally start until mid September when it is a little cooler.
I guess teams that are going to specialize in 4 dog clas for the winter could start at 1 mile, but I know kennels that won't even keep a dog that can't run 4 miles the first run in the fall.