Ep. 403: Iditarod Dog Sledding Revisited - Blake Freking
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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This flashback episode is on one of our favorite subjects. During the month of March every year, the Iditarod sled dog race is run in Alaska from Willow to Nome and covers more than 1100 miles over 9-15 days or more depending on the team. Listen in as three-time Iditarod competitor, Blake Freking is with me today to talk about the incredible adventure sled dog racing is.
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| 0:00.0 | And I honestly have no idea how long it took us, but it was the middle of the night, and by the time we got to the summit, dawn was just breaking, and it was the most amazing sunrise I've ever seen. |
| 0:21.2 | So it's little things like that that really set things apart. |
| 0:26.1 | Episode number 403, a little winter in the summertime with the Iditarod dog sled race. |
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| 1:28.0 | How did your episode 400 challenge go? |
| 1:33.2 | Those of you who heard last Thursday show know that that was episode 400. It was amazing for me to realize that we had done 400 episodes, and I challenged everybody to help us celebrate 400 episodes by making a small difference in someone else's life that day. And I'm curious how |
| 1:47.6 | that went for you. If you haven't done that yet, look for a way, just be open, look for a way |
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