INCLUDED IN THE ROOKIE PROGRAM:

Pre-Season Kickoff!

Foundation work for racing dogs

Overcome the summer challenges and get one step ahead of your competitors in training and race prepping!

  • 5 Live Webinars

    Q&A included

  • Community

    Share thoughts, tips and ideas

  • Home assignments

    Personal development

  • Final Exam

    Certificate upon completion

    What you are going to learn

    A few words about this course

    Early training startup is one of the keys of success on the racing trails. With this outside-the-box setup you build yourself and your dogs a solid foundation of training based on the well being of the sled dog. 

    When completed this course you:

    • ..know how to adjust your training to warmer temperatures
    • ..have built a Best Dog Care rewarded hydration routine that will last all through the season
    • ..have found a reliable way of documenting and evaluating your training
    • ..have analysed your strengths and weaknesses as musher - and started working on them
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    It exceeded my expectations!

    Marlene showed me that nervousness can be a good thing (...) with butterflies fluttering in my stomach with joy, looking forward to the race.
    When it came to mental insecurity, we agreed on goals for me and behold, I found it really easy to focus on these goals and improve! 

    Nadja Wittman🇨🇭

    🥉 Šediváčkův long 2026

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    A space where I felt seen and supported

    What I truly appreciate is how Marlene combines her professional expertise with a deeply personal approach; she doesn’t just teach you how to mush, she helps you grow into the musher you want to become.

    Marieke Schutte 🇳🇱
    Sprint musher on dryland & snow
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    coach review

    Finding Marlene was a gamechanger!

    I was already working with my dogs in a nice way but wanted professional guidance to make sure I was truly on the right track. Marlene inspired me to set ambitious goals and provided both the knowledge and the practical skills I needed to achieve them. I truly appreciate her powerful yet empatic way of coaching.
     

    Daniy Herbst-Früholz 🇩🇪

    Future long-distance musher

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    Straight to the podium!

    I highly recommend! Marlene helped me to get ready for my first races!

    Malcolm McDaniel 🇸🇪
    🥉 Beaver Trap Trail 2025

    Marlene Hällström

    • Canine Ethologist
    • World Champion Mid-Distance Musher
    • Former captain of the Swedish National Sled Dog Team

    About

    Marlene is a passionate musher and ethologist with a particular interest in sled dog welfare. She runs an 8-dog-team of own bred siberian huskies in longer mid-distance races as Femundløpet 200 and Amundsen Race 180. Marlene is a masters' student of Clinical Animal Behaviour at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Sciences in Edinburgh. She is also the former Captain of the Swedish National Sled Dog Team. 
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