標題: After days of bike pushing 04 [打印本頁] 作者: fwjdzbvb 時間: 2016-3-30 11:54 標題: After days of bike pushing 04
2012 Iditarod Trail Invitational
We ride! After days of bike pushing, Englishman Steve Wilkinson finally got on his bike to ride on the Iditarod Trail to Shell Lake Wednesday. The competitor in the Iditarod Trail Invitational did about 100 yards before he decided the trail was still soft and the riding too much work. He jumped off and resumed pushing. The finish line remained more than 200 miles in north in McGrath on the other side of the Alaska Range. A veteran of Lacoste Australia the 2011 Invitational, Wilkinson was thinking Fred Perry Stockists Melbourne of dropping out Nike Shox Turbo 13 of this one. The sled rolls up when not in use. Koitzsch, who plans to travel the entire 1,000 miles of Polo Ralph Lauren Australia Online Store the Iditarod Trail to Nome, plans to roll the sled up, tie it to the bike Lacoste Outlet Australia and start riding when the trails firm up. They were still better for his snowshoes on Wednesday. Three Iditarod Trail Invitational competitors remained in Skwentna when Koitzsch left, but they were all talking about scratching.One thing about the Far North hasn't changed sinceArchdeacon Hudson Stuckroamed the country by dogsled 100 years ago: The best gift one winter traveler can give another is a trail.Thus it was with enthusiasm thatIditarod Trail Invitationalracers greeted a snowmachine, early on in the 2012 competition, at the confluence of the Susitna and Yentna Rivers, where the landscape was buried beneath more than two feet of fresh snow.Back in the day, the ultramarathon, human powered, 350 mile race from Knik to McGrath was called the "The Iditasport Extreme." Those crazy enough to head on the next 550 miles, to Nome, took part in a race known colloquially as "The Iditasport Impossible." These days, they are both lumped together under the banner of the Invitational, but they remain extreme and if not Ralph Lauren Online Sale Australia impossible, damn near so.Over the past decade, only 35 Invitational competitors have made it to Nome. Nearly twice that many make it up the trail each year with the aid of canine teammates in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Some think the latter event extreme. They're clueless.
