Pace required to drop a Husky

Eight stories.

Don't expect to outrun a husky between February and April unless you're quite fit. But if you wait until championship season when it matters the husky will be completely worn out and easy to beat.

Remember when Donovan Bailey tried to outrun a horse? Or was that Big Ben?

I think Usain Bolt could outrun a husky. Close.

With or without a parachute?

Hopeful Runner wrote:

Assuming the temperature is favorable for the Husky, how many miles/what pace do you think someone would be able to drop a Husky (given that the husky is in race shape). Is it possible?

No, it's not possible; unless you're talking about using a vehicle or some such.

Hopeful Runner wrote:

Assuming the temperature is favorable for the Husky, how many miles/what pace do you think someone would be able to drop a Husky (given that the husky is in race shape). Is it possible?

My husky would pull me for the first two miles and then I would pull her. She was a fast starter.

Don't watch this video until the end but this is what you are dealing with when it comes to a running canine.

A husky could beat Bolt in a 100 and then keep going and beat the fastest Marathoner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62hXf_JgRWY

With just the right amount of ice crust on the snow, it is supposed to be possible to run down a wolf using snowshoes. The wolf breaks through the crust and eventually is injured and slowed by the ice. No reason you couldn't outdistance a husky the same way. I guess it takes a few hours of steady slogging.

Wolves can use this same method to hunt elks.

I dropped a husky in my shorts when I got down to 4:45 pace at the end of a race.

the557miler wrote:

Remember when Donovan Bailey tried to outrun a horse? Or was that Big Ben?

I think Usain Bolt could outrun a husky. Close.

Actually not hard to outsprint a Husky over 100-400m...and that's the only way you can outrun them.

I had a Siberian Husky and we started every evening "walk" with what was a flat out sprint of about 200 meters for the Husky. I'm a sprinter and I had to hold back because the dog was on a leash and couldn't run as fast.

Huskies have roughly 60 second or so 400 speed. BUT...they can pull a sled at roughly 6:00 pace and they can do it for miles and miles and miles.

The ONLY chance you have to drop huskies is to outsprint them.

Bad Wigins wrote:

With just the right amount of ice crust on the snow, it is supposed to be possible to run down a wolf using snowshoes. The wolf breaks through the crust and eventually is injured and slowed by the ice.

You're more than a little bit crazy, aren't you?

There are numerous 'huskies" .. some bred for speed, some bred for endurance, and all kinda of combinations. You can't out sprint a racing husky.

wtfunny wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

With just the right amount of ice crust on the snow, it is supposed to be possible to run down a wolf using snowshoes. The wolf breaks through the crust and eventually is injured and slowed by the ice.

You're more than a little bit crazy, aren't you?

You're the expected ignorant jerk

here's the first easy google hit for snowshoe wolf hunting

while northern canines have big feet, they're not quite as big per their weight as human snowshoes. An 45kg adult male wolf's front paw is about 100cm^2 in area. Considering that also an upper bound for the smaller rear paw, and that a moving wolf must repeatedly bear all its weight on only two paws, it must exert up to 45/200 = .22kg/cm^2 of pressure on the snow.

A snowshoe with a small loaded area of 44cm x 14cm = 616cm^2 can support an 81kg man with a weight/s.a. ratio of only 0.13kg/cm^2, allowing him to run in some conditions where a wolf would bog down.

Now cease your stupid comments or I'll blind you with science a second time.

Which one? Katie Flood? Megan Goethals?

you won't be able to run faster than it, but you might be able to run farther than it (meaning it will stop) if it can't get water. I'd say around 20 miles if it has no access to water. If it has access to water, you'd have to run until it ran out of energy, maybe 200 miles.

coach d wrote:

Huskies have roughly 60 second or so 400 speed.

This is the dumbest thing you've ever written and the least accurate.

The Iditarod posts checkpoint splits with average speed between the checkpoints. So this is the speed of huskies in top shape, and PULLING A SLED.The checkpoint below is one of the first and is 42 miles from the previous one, and the lead dude clocked an 11.45 mph average.That's a 5.14 minute mile for 42 miles.You will not outrun a fit husky. Ever. If you outrun YOUR husky, you are probably an a**hole and don't let your husky run enough because it is in terrible condition.

SMJO wrote:

coach d wrote:

Huskies have roughly 60 second or so 400 speed.

This is the dumbest thing you've ever written and the least accurate.

Here's the link.

http://iditarod.com/race/2013/checkpoints/4-Yentna/

SMJO wrote:

coach d wrote:

Huskies have roughly 60 second or so 400 speed.

This is the dumbest thing you've ever written and the least accurate.

How true. Outsprint a husky? Yeah, right!