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Colorado Springs husband-wife team in Iditarod mode.(The Gazette)

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| March 01, 2003 | Acord, Deb | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Deb Acord

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ Imagine racing a sled dog team the 1,100 miles between Chicago and Colorado Springs _ but you're actually going that distance in high winter through the Alaskan wilderness between Fairbanks and Nome.

Imagine you've invested $50,000 and years of preparation to make this happen, knowing it could end in a literal No Man's Land (a leg of the race), on the wrong side of a winter storm or midway through a hairpin turn in the remote north woods.

That's what's in store for Team Clarke, a Colorado Springs husband-wife team that will tackle the 2003 Iditarod beginning Monday at noon MST in Fairbanks.

Set aside all thoughts of risk and reward (there's about $600,000 in prizes). Team Clarke has.

Somewhere in the snowy woods outside Steamboat Springs, or the forested trails of the Yukon, or the ...

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