FOG BLOG SPORTS LOG: NB WOMAN MAKES HISTORY AS HER AND HER HUSKIES WIN SLED RACE IN MAINE!

N.B. woman and her huskies make history at Maine sled dog race Katherine Langlais is the first woman to win the Can-Am Crown International Proud and exhausted.

That's how Katherine Langlais described her feelings as she hovered over a bowl of soup at the end of a 250-mile (400km) race through deep snow, isolated forests and a pair of dark winter nights.

It was her first full meal in three days. But she says it was all worth it as the northern New Brunswicker became the first woman to ever win the Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Race.

"I'm just coming to the realization of my win, actually, it's something to process," said Langlais, 39, a few hours after crossing the finish line in Fort Kent, Maine. "I'm feeling tired, I'm feeling good, I'm feeling like we had just accomplished one of our dreams," she said. Langlais and 12 of her Alaskan huskies started their race on Saturday at 10:40 a.m. ET. Racing against 13 other sled dog teams through the northern tip of Maine, she made the circuit through the isolated forests faster than any other musher.

At 8:36 ET on Monday morning she crossed the finish line. She was 12 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher, and the first woman to ever take the title in the 30-year history of the race.

"That's what I'm very proud of," said Langlais. "I'm always one to fight for, you know, that women are just as important in every field as men, and we're just as [competent] and we can accomplish the same things." And she wasn't alone. Canadian women came in first in all three races this weekend, Langlais said, with racers from Quebec winning the 100 mile(160km) and the 30 mile(48km).

"It was nice to know that when I came in this morning that, yes, I did win, but I won along with two other women."

Langlais says she wasn't sure she'd won until after she crossed the finish line.