Iditarod Trail Invitational launches
The atmosphere surrounding Knik Lake was an empty canvas — flat light, soft snow, and a slate gray sky — as 49 runners and cyclists embarked on the 14th running of the Iditarod Trail Invitational,…
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A brief history of Iditabike
As 55 cyclists, skiers, and runners gear up for this weekend’s Iditarod Trail Invitational, human-powered racing on Alaska’s Iditarod Trail quietly turns thirty years old. In 1983, “the father of the Iditarod” Joe Redington launched…
Run Thousands: The persistence of Tim Hewitt
Endurance running is a sport built on a foundation of persistence, but if there were a President of Persistence Lifetime Award for ultrarunners, I would nominate Tim Hewitt. Who is Tim Hewitt? He’s a 57-year-old…
Fueling up for a thousand-mile trek across Alaska
Editor’s note: Beat Jegerlehner is preparing to compete in the Iditarod Trail Invitational, a thousand-mile, human-powered trek across frozen Alaska on the famed Iditarod Trail. The race begins Feb. 24 in Knik, Alaska, and Beat…
Crossing frozen Alaska by bike — a hundred years ago
They were perhaps North America’s first endurance racers — the grizzled men and a few women who set out across wild expanses in a race to reach a land of uncertain but undeniably vast fortunes. The…
My favorite hallucination
Men in dark suits, kickboxing squirrels, mariachi singers … you just never know what might creep out of the shadows during an endurance race. And as you linger on the edge of a cliff, transfixed…