Rudy 6000

5 year old Rudy surpassed 6000 career skijor miles this morning! Way to go Rudy!

"WOO! I love skijoring!" belts out Rudy at our turnaround point
of this morning's outing.

Rudy is 5 years/10 months old and has now accumulated over 6000 career skijor miles (6004.6 to be exact). Consider that most of this has happened since he was 1.5 years old (he was too young to run and then doing small training runs before 1.5) and we've had evil summer months mixed in the timeline and that is a pretty impressive skijor career he is putting together! For the curious, Jack is roughly 5 months older than Rudy, so he passed 6000 career miles late last season. Mighty impressive skijor resumes from both Jack & Rudy!

We accomplished Rudy's milestone on freshly groomed and pristine trails at Breckenridge Nordic Center this morning. We were thrilled to see the groomer had been on the trails minutes before us and we were first tracks on the fresh groom almost the entire outing!

Fresh groom so we zoom! :)

Here's a fun shot of Jack & Rudy with "fresh groom snow poofs" flying off their feet as we fly on by the Kathy's Viewpoint warming hut. Wheeee!

Nice action shot of the fun kids!

Of course, Jack & Rudy know what to do with a freshly groomed trail. Come along and watch as we top 21 MPH on the fresh groomie zoomie trail. Zoom!

[watch on youtube if no video loads below]

Along the way, we encountered another skier coming up the trail. Jack & Rudy love to fly by oncoming traffic and put smiles on people's faces!

"Coming through! Made you smile!" says fast running Jack & Rudy
putting on a skijoring show for the oncoming skier.

Back to the trailhead and time to celebrate Rudy's 6000th career skijor mile with some tasty end of run treats:

"I did it! 6000 career miles and counting!" says happy Rudy.
"Been there, done that!" adds older brother Jack.

A fabulous morning on freshly groomed trails: 8.4 miles traveled with 800 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH.

2023/2024 Season to Date: 16 days on the trails covering 126.7 miles with 12,700 feet of elevation climbed.