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Summary: Learn tips on how long a dog sledder should ride at a time race in this free instructional video clip about the dogsled race in Iditarod.
Lachlan & Linda Clarke make up TEAM CLARKE: We first became interested in dog sledding in 2002 and have been avidly training dogs ever since. We have 6 races under our belt,...read more
"I would like to invite you to visit our website at www.teamclarke.com. So will they run, you said 35 or 32 miles tonight? Yeah. Will they run non-stop? Oh yeah. Tonight? Yep. During the Iditarod, I’ve run as far as 85 miles in one shot. 85 miles? How long does that take? 9 or 10 hours. Depending on the conditions. One-hundred years ago 20 miles was a good day. During the Iditarod, we go a 100 or a 120 miles a day and the top guys will go 140 to 150 miles a day. Jeff King after his 24th this year in Takotna went straight to Cripple a 105 or 110 miles. Smacked his dogs a few times. You know. He would stop and take a 10 or 20 minute break here and there."
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