Ep. 1047: Skiing all 1,000 miles of the the Iditarod - Sunny Stroeer
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Sunny is the first woman to complete the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational on cross-country skis - but she is not a skier. A Harvard MBA and hard-charging strategy consultant in her twenties, Sunny turned her back on material possessions at age 30 in order to live in an Astrovan so she could run and climb full-time instead.
Sunny's overarching passion is to be active and push her limits in the side- and backcountry, spanning a multitude of sports from big-wall climbs over multi-day paddling trips to 100 milers and everything in between, including 1000 mile cross country ski races, though her specialty is the high altitude endurance realm; she holds speed records on Aconcagua and on the Annapurna Circuit and has excelled on high trails in the Colorado Rockies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. Today's episode is pretty cool. It's with Sunny Struer, and I'm not sure I got the last name completely right, Sunny. I'm sorry about that. We talked about it. It's German. But Sunny is, this is an awesome adventure. |
| 0:23.7 | It's a thousand miles on the Iditarod Trail on skis. And Sunny is not a skier. She actually |
| 0:30.9 | spends her days touring people through the backcountry of the deserts of Utah. |
| 0:39.4 | So a totally different environment. |
| 0:40.6 | She's from Germany. |
| 0:42.3 | It's been a lot of time in New York City. |
| 0:48.3 | So this was very much a unique, wild, wild adventure for her. |
| 0:52.3 | She is not from Alaska or does a lot in the cold. |
| 0:56.7 | So this was way out of her comfort zone and a huge achievement. |
| 1:02.1 | And what's really cool is her backstory. We're going to spend a lot of time talking about that because she had an MBA. She was on this trajectory to be probably an executive of some large |
| 1:08.5 | corporation. But all throughout her 20s just realized that that is not the life she wanted. |
| 1:14.6 | And it was a pretty dramatic end to her corporate career in the start of her adventurous life. |
| 1:21.9 | We're going to hear how she's, despite all the crazy adventures and big wall climbing, multi-day paddling trips, |
| 1:29.0 | and her passion for adventure coupled with that is risk aversion, not enjoying training, |
| 1:35.9 | and some of the other things that make her unique. |
| 1:39.0 | What's also interesting is that this is the first year in the Iditarod's history |
| 1:42.9 | that someone has completed the entire |
| 1:45.4 | 1,000 miles by ski and Sunny was not the first, but the first woman. So had she finished, |
| 1:53.7 | had no one else finished this year, she would have not only been the first woman, but also the first |
| 1:57.4 | person to finish the entire 1,000 mile Iditar did a Rod Trail Invitational, buy ski. |
| 2:02.7 | So if you want to learn more, go to AW Expeditions, AWExpeditions.org. |
| 2:08.6 | That's one of her businesses. |
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