Posted on 03/12/2008 5:53:08 AM PDT by skeptoid
Sled-dog racing pundits said it couldn't be done.
Win the brutal 1,000-mile Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race and the punishing 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race both in one year, both -- in fact -- in the space of little more than a month?
Impossible.
And then a hardscrabble, cancer-beating musher from Fairbanks by the name of Lance Mackey did it.
But that was last year.
What could Mackey possibly do to top it this year?
How about an instant replay?
First the Quest in bone-numbing, flesh-freezing, 40-degree below zero temperatures that left Mackey with frostbitten feet.
Then the Iditarod, still hobbling around on those frostbitten feet, in sled-dog-taxing temperatures often near 40-degrees above zero, sometimes warmer.
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What is it that makes guys names Lance so Indomitable?
The guy I’m following should finish 30th.
Sounded like a good race this year.
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