Ep. 629: Leaving Alaska - Update - Kristin Knight Pace
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Not many people would go to Alaska during the winter, completely alone, to take care of a team of sled dogs to get over a recent divorce. However, that's exactly what Kristin did. That toughness eventually led her to become one of only 29 women to complete both the Iditarod and the Yukon Quest 1000-mile sled dog race.
Kristin is now remarried and has officially started a new journey, motherhood. Up until recently, she also works as a wilderness planner for Denali National Park and also wrote a book about her experiences, This Much Country, which made the New York Times summer reading list in 2019. It can be found following the link below or pretty much anywhere else you buy books (she asks that you support your local bookstore).
However, today’s episode is not about her life in Alaska. It’s about her and her family making the enormous change to restart their lives in Texas. Listen in to hear about how continuing to live in Alaska would have led to compromise and how a complete change in identity is sometimes the best direction to go.
The book: This Much Country
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Episode 505: Dog Sledding and Life in Alaska - Iditarod Racer, Kristin Knight Pace
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| 0:00.0 | My identity was so tied up with being a long-distance dog musher that I thought if I didn't sign up for that race and, you know, do the thing that I had carved out for myself and that I had become known for that I was just going to disappear. |
| 0:19.6 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:25.3 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:29.6 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:52.6 | Thank you. You probably remember Kristen Knight Pace from episode 505 on this show that came out almost a year ago now. |
| 0:54.5 | Actually, just over a year ago. |
| 1:02.3 | And she was talking about her life in Alaska, racing the Iditarod, doing literally dog sledding while pregnant and while breastfeeding. |
| 1:03.8 | Pretty crazy stuff. |
| 1:09.4 | You know, her and her husband, Andy, lived up in the mountains of Alaska, really remote lifestyle. |
| 1:11.8 | And I interviewed her just recently for my other show called Without Compromise because I figured, you know, what better example of a life |
| 1:16.8 | to live without compromise than rural Alaska with kids. Now she has two kids. And when I reached out, |
| 1:24.9 | realized that her life was changing a totally different direction. |
| 1:27.9 | So I decided to release that episode on this show, too, instead of a revisited episode on Thursday, |
| 1:34.4 | to kind of tell what she's up to now, the direction her life is headed with her and her family. |
| 1:40.0 | They're actually, you know, spoiler alert, moving to Texas to start a farm. |
| 1:45.6 | And we reflect on the whole quarantine thing, but she's just a totally incredible person. Park Ranger, everything, just really |
| 1:51.6 | awesome. Has the incredible book out that made it, it became her book This Much Country was on New York |
| 1:58.9 | Times summer reading list, which is pretty incredible. |
| 2:02.4 | And yeah, so we're going to reflect on that, listen to her story, what they're doing now. |
| 2:06.6 | And I think it's just a great story for folks going through change right now. |
| 2:11.3 | A lot of us have been forced into change through layoffs or job cutting back or, you know, kids are at home with us. But also, |
| 2:18.6 | a lot of us are going to be choosing to change after this and in the midst of this. So, you know, |
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