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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 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Colorado Springs husband-wife team in Iditarod mode.(The Gazette)