Every day is womens day!

Today is the 8th of March, Womans Day. Still an important day- but in the dog mushing sport women have always been equal with men.

Last year Erle Frantzen won the 500 km, and May-Conny Johansen won third place in the 1000 km. Erle Frantzen beat everybody in her class, the other women and many men. Two women stood on the winners podium after the 500 km. Nina Skramstad won bronze. In the 1000 km  class May-Conny was beat by two men, but many feel that it is as good as gold. The year before, in 2005 two women came in first in the 500 km; Hilde Askildt og Katy Meier.

In the dog mushing world women and men have always competed on the same level, in the same competitions, for the same finishing places, and the same prize. The sport pays no attention to a difference in sex. It is a sport were women and men compete together and at the same time. Women and men have the same chances of winning and share the winners podium. This years race will probably prove again that this is a sport where women and men experience the same race and are equal till the end. The winners podium is open to be shared between the sexes.

Ida Karlstrøm from Langfjordbotn has annouced that the FL-1000km is one of the components towards her future participation in the world longest race, the Iditarod in Alaska. There she will aslo compete against many men, on the same level. Who knows? Maybe she will win and stand at the top of the winners podium. Not completely on the same level- but just a little over the other competetors.