Eureka musher Brent Sass — winner of six total Yukon Quest races — highlights the nine teams who signed up for the 2024 Yukon Quest Alaska 300-mile race slated to begin Feb. 3 in Fairbanks.
Sass is a three-time champion of the traditional 1,000-mile Quest, winning in 2015, 2019 and 2020. Sass also claimed victories in the
Rohn Buser, son of four-time Iditarod champion Martin Buser, is the only musher other than Sass to have competed in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, while Lauro Eklund, Josi Thyr and Anna Hennessy are signed up for their rookie Iditarod in 2024.“If it’s a blizzard out you don’t stay home that day, you try to go out and train in the blizzard,” Bahl said at sign up day of her training method.
Bahl’s team, like other endurance athletes, need several hundred miles under their belt before race day. “Just as if you were a marathon runner, you know you’re gonna do tempo runs and hill training runs, so same thing with the dogs — we’re just trying to expose them to as many different conditions as possible so that race day comes and it’s exciting, it’s fun and it’s easy for them at that point,” Bahl said.”We’ve gotten a lot of support already, so that’s really great,” Nilson said.
Yukon Quest Alaska is also offering a 200- and an 80-mile race. More information on Yukon Quest Alaska Races can be found on their‘I forgive you, and pray God has mercy on your soul’: Loved ones of 2018 stabbing victim share emotional testimony during hearingAnchorage Assembly plans $10M bond proposal for improving Chugach State Park access
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