| I'm finally back in my room and feeling a special sort of sympathy for Iditarod mushers. |
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| People unfamiliar with sled-dog racing think the Iditarod is won by the best musher. |
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| Swingley had seen Rick Swenson, a five-time Iditarod winner, pull psych jobs on others, so he decided to try a little mind game of his own. |
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| In 1998 I finished the Yukon Quest and finished the Iditarod in 2001, becoming one of only a handful of women to ever finish both races. |
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| The 20-year-old woman from Oregon is the first blind musher to compete in the Iditarod. |
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| In memory of the serum run's principal musher, Leonhard Seppala, the Iditarod was originally called the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race. |
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| If you prefer a solo challenge, consider racing a dog sled over 1,100 miles of Alaskan wasteland on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome. |
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| For sled dogs lovers, the Iditarod trail is the most notorious and extreme race in the world. |
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| Shorter sled dog races used to qualify for the Iditarod were also called off. |
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| The Iditarod consists of well-worn and easy-to-follow trails that local residents use throughout the year, mushing and snowmobiling from village to village. |
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| She was victorious in both 1987 and 1988 to become the only musher in the history of the sport to win the Iditarod in three consecutive years. |
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| Lance is cancer free and is the only musher to win both the Iditarod and Yukon Quest four years in a row. |
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| I made a promise to myself that someday I would run the Iditarod. I moved to Alaska in 1993 to volunteer for the Iditarod and wound up working for famous racers such as Susan Butcher and Jeff King. |
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| His main goal is to be the first Finn ever to run the Iditarod. |
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| Ketil is the only one musher who has run the 4 greatest races in the world: the Iditarod, the Yukon Quest, the Finnmarkslopet and La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc. |
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| Female Iditarod dog sled racer DeeDee Jonrowe will be the guest speaker at Tuesday's EIA Inspirational and Awards BreakFast. |
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| The Iditarod Trail, at over 1,000 miles, spans Alaska and connects the coastal cities of Seward and Nome. |
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| Jeff King battled through blowing snow and poor visibility to earn his third victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. |
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| On March 6, that cry will send more than a thousand sled dogs running as this year's Iditarod begins. |
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| Poo-Chi arrived via a dogsled team led by Doug Swingley, the 2000 Iditarod champion. |
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| And as for the Iditarod, at least one musher feasts on vacuum-packed moose stroganoff on the trail. Of course, moose are hardly the only big animal that creates trouble for humans, and vice versa. |
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| Indeed, the great world races of reference, such as the Iditarod and Yukon Quest, unlike this great journey through the Alps, are organized in ice-cold areas, with little relief. |
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| She was wearing that dress — qiviut is the underwool of the musk ox — last March when she received first prize for the 1987 race, and also the year before when she picked up the trophy for the 1986 Iditarod. |
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| The mushers ate like sled dogs, scarfing double and triple helpings of roast moose and potatoes, which they washed down with coffee and Tang — the Gatorade of the Iditarod. |
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| The greatest challenge of the Iditarod is putting together a team of 12 16 dogs and a musher capable of overcoming all the obstacles and unexpected problems that present themselves along the course. |
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| With his victory in the 2009 Iditarod, Mackey joined Susan Butcher and Doug Swingley as the only mushers to have won the event three consecutive times. |
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| Mushing soon became a family business: Dallas's older brothers, Danny and Tyrell, competed in the Iditarod, and both Tyrell and younger brother Conway won the Junior Iditarod. |
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| Seavey's hat covered a hint of cauliflower on the top half of his left ear, a battle scar from an amateur wrestling career that nearly forestalled his emergence as a mushing prodigy — the youngest-ever Iditarod champion. |
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| Yes, we campaign against the Iditarod because when the dogs aren't being driven – sometimes to death – most live chained or inside cages for their entire lives. |
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| She won the challenging Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska four times. |
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| I remember that at the beginning of the last century there was the great Iditarod escapade, in which a diphtheria serum was needed in Nome, Alaska. |
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| This pictorial of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race shows participants and dogs and landscapes along the way, in order of the race route from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. |
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| One of the lab's pathologists, James Lanier, who just retired, has run the Iditarod race many times and was pictured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Year in Sports. |
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| We saw a snow machine from the guys who were doing the video from the iditarod. |
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| What Palin begins with an announcement from Wasilla is not only a campaign, it is an iditarod of a crusade. |
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| The iditarod is one of the most rigorous, cold-weather races in the world. |
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