Buser’s Bold Iditarod Move May Prove a Stroke of Genius
Race fans were left scratching their heads yesterday after watching Martin Buser jump to a huge lead on the first day of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Questions were asked: What was he thinking?• Why would he run almost 20 hours non-stop so early in the race?• What will…
Four Women Ranking Among 2013 Iditarod’s Top-20 Mushers
There are currently four women running among the top-20 in this year’s Iditarod. This year’s race could be both extremely fast and extremely competitive. The women in the race aren’t holding back.After placing second last year to Dallas Seavey, Aliy Zirkle decided she was no longer just training dogs, but…
Is Speedy Buser Afflicted with Iditarod Amnesia? Or just cagey?
This year’s Iditarod Trail is proving to be remarkably musher- and dog-friendly, providing a relatively smooth path to the south side of the Alaska Range — and one musher is determined to get there as fast as possible. Less than 24 hours into the 1,000-mile Iditarod marathon, Big Lake’s Martin…
Iditarod Mushers Master Strategy, Tricks
Here’s one proven way to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race: Let others take the early lead in the 1,000-mile trek to Alaska’s wind-scoured western coast.That approach might seem counterintuitive to the novice fan of the famous sled dog race. Running the Iditarod is as simple and straightforward as…
Ryan Anderson Wins 250-mile Irving Can-Am Race
A Minnesota man won a 250-mile sled dog race through the wilds of northern Maine that’s billed as the longest and highest-caliber race in the eastern United States.Ryan Anderson, a 31-year-old carpenter from Ray, Minn., finished the 250-mile Irving Can-Am Crown race in Fort Kent at about 4 a.m. Monday…
Mansfield Musher Starts Second Iditarod
With just a week before Alaska’s biggest race of the year, there was a significant change to Matthew Failor’s Iditarod team.“It was quite the phone call,” said his father, Tim Failor, with a laugh.As recent as Matt’s Yukon Quest finish on Feb. 14 was, the 2000 St. Peter’s High School…
How’s the Iditarod Trail this year? Call it a snowy superhighway to Nikolai
Alaska’s sparse-snow winter that complicated training for mushers in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race may ironically have created a fast track to Nome. The early trail running some 150 miles from the Winterlake Lodge at Finger Lake up and over the Alaska Range to the village of Nikolai appears to…
Iditarod Day Brings Race Day and Dogs to Colorado
The challenge of mushing through 1,150 miles of Alaska’s dense forests, rugged mountains and frozen rivers is one that 3-year-old Aria Parkerhaase and her 5-year-old brother, Shade, wouldn’t hesitate to take on.Aria’s strategy for the dog-sled race is simple: “I would just go really fast.”Her older brother has a different…
Let the Real Iditarod Begin…
The Iditarod, that great, famed Alaska race that lures novices and champions alike into a 1,000-mile wilderness competition is finally starting for real. And it’s as exciting as ever. Fresh off a year when distance-mushing dynasties crumbled under a batch of eager up-and-comers, the presumed lead pack for 2013 is…
Iditarod 2013: Ed Stielstra Runs Ceremonial Start, Scratches
The 2013 Iditarod got underway Saturday in Anchorage, Alaska, but the trail ends there for at least one musher. Ed Stielstra, Michigan’s lone entrant in the race, has decided to drop out due to a serious injury suffered while training in February.Stielstra sustained the injury Feb. 12 when his sled…