Iditarod teams are contending with warm weather in the thousand-mile race, many choosing to run in the cool of night as much as possible. We’ll talk about that in this episode, plus a little about what other sports some mushers have participated in outside of mushing. We have another Dog of the Day — this time, a trusty leader named JoAnna — and, as always, a listener question.
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