This year’s mushers include a former all-conference football player, an Ironman triathlete and a member of a national championship ski team.
It’s no secret that you have to be in decent physical shape to keep up on the Iditarod trail.
I raced downhill skiing in Duluth, Minnesota. When we were seniors, we were national champions. I wasn’t the main point-getter for our team. I think the sports helped my mushing, especially wrestling and boxing. Those are two sports that take an incredible amount of discipline and mental toughness. Waking up at 5 a.m. and running four to five miles every morning, then going to school, then going to practice afterwards and then some days I’d even go workout after practice as well. I’d just eat, sleep, breathe that stuff and try to be the best I can. It hardens you, for sure.”“I was a cross-country runner in high school in Iowa.
“When I went to college they had these things — kinda like Thursday Night Fights in Anchorage — where people just show up and fight. My friends dared me to do it. I’d never boxed before, and then the referee offered to train me up for free. I did a state club boxing thing, and I won that. We were getting paid if you won, so it wasn’t really amateur.
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