Petter has reached the finishline in Alta.

FL-1000: Sterk sluttspurt i sitt andre Finnmarksløp.

Skrevet av: Niels Westphal
Foto: Niels Westphal
Dato: 15.03.2014 11:25

Svensken Karlsson har banket alle andre på de siste 133 kilometerne i årets Finnmarksløp. Han har tydeligvis disponert kreftene til hundene perfekt, og de hadde mye å gi inn mot mål. Til Jotka kjørte han en halv time raskere enn nest raskeste, Kjetil Reitan.

Han var også 1.45 raskere enn vinner Sigrid Ekran. Fra Jotka til mål i Alta holdt han fortsatt farten opp, og holdt over 11,3 kilometer i gjennomsnittsfart hele veien inn.

Karasjok

Petter fell asleep after eating, in the dog truck.
Petter is now in Karasjok after running 911km. He is heading towards Jotka 83km away and then to Alta, another 50km. When he reches the finishline the dogs have taken him 1044km!!!

Resting in Levajok

Petter is now in Levajok. He had a good run here. Six of the seven dogs in the team looked really good.  The seventh dog needed more rest, since she is a leaddog Petter needs her in the team and therefor decided to take an extra 8 hour rest.
Now it has started to snow and they are expecting a storm during the night so Petter will stay at Levajok where he and the dogs can rest comfortably and hope for nicer weather tomorrow morning.

Out from Neiden

Petter started out from Neiden in 15th position after he had taken his 16 hour mandatory rest. They made a great run in 5:37!
Some dogs have got some digestion problems, the same as some other teams. Now that he has done half the distance, Petter has reached the part of the competition where he can make use of some of his strong points as a musher. He helps his dogs more than the average, and there are not that many mushers with the same physical capacity. 

Petter in to Levajok

 

Petter coming in with 14 dogs in the team to Levajok.

He gives the dogs some snacks before he takes their boties off and put out straw for them to rest on.

There has been alot of strong wind but according to the time Petter has still made a good run. Petter had the wind coming mostly from behind but it was ripping up alot of snow manking it very difficult to se the trailmarkers but the team came in to the checkpoint in good speed and the vet checked all the dogs and they are in good shape.

Depo bags

Before the start on Saturday there are alot of things to organize.

Here they are prepairing the depobags with dogfood that will be sent out to the different checkpoints by truck before the start.

Finnmarkslöpet 1000

Petter is now in Alta. On Saturday the he will be on the starting line for Finnmarkslöpet.
He will run 1000km with a team of 14 dogs.

You can follow the race day and night on www.finnmarkslopet.no
You can also follow Petter on facebook  https://www.facebook.com/petter.karlsson.50

8 place in Femundlöpet

We finnished Femundlöpet in a fantastic 8 place.
The team was strong and happy on the finnish line.
That was a good test before Finnmarkslöpet and we are really looking forward to it.
Thanks for all the congratulations and we hope that you will follow us in Finnmarkslöpet.