Saturday, March 3, 2012

Iditarod race

  • It was all laughs, smiles and barks during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage on Saturday morning. Cant get enough? Relive the action from the 2011 Iditarod.
  • (FOXSports.com)
  • The 2012 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicks off this weekend, sending 66 dog-powered sleds on a two-week, 1,100-mile slog across Alaska.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Cant get enough? Relive the action from the 2011 Iditarod. In this year's annual dog sled race, which officially begins Sunday in Anchorage, racers and spectators will actually be seeing double thanks to a set of 28-year-old identical twins.
  • (FOXSports.com)
  • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- They are off are running in Anchorage, Alaska. The 40th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race began Saturday morning in downtown Anchorage.
  • (Associated Press)
  • The silliness is part of the plan for Taylorvilles 2nd annual Urban Iditarod, organizers said. The Saturday morning race pitted oddly attired competitors in place of dogs and wacky shopping carts in place of dogsleds.
  • (ksl.com)
  • The Alaska Ultrasport Iditarod Invitational is a human-powered race along the Iditarod Trail, the same route as Alaskas famed 1,000-mile sled dog race.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • For the first time, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race officials are requiring all dogs in the race to be vaccinated for kennel cough. Symptoms of the bug, a highly infectious upper respiratory infection, include a dry honking cough, gagging and retching.
  • (Anchorage Daily News)
  • Durango High School graduate Ryne Olson is one of 66 mushers in the 40th running of the famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race that kicks off today. Olson, Durango High School class of 2007, is realizing a dream.
  • (Durango Herald)
  • The sled jerked into motion and we raced into a stand of spruce, chasing history down the Iditarod Trail.
  • (New York Times)

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