On Sunday, March 1, 2015, I lined up for the start of the Iditarod Trail Invitational, a 300 mile race that I would be attempting on a fat-tired bicycle in Alaska's late winter on the Iditarod Trail. A long chain of events led to that start for me.
I am not an awesome mountain runner. Usually, when I sign up for a mountain race I wind up regretting it. But the Crow Pass Marathon had long been on my "someday" list of races. It is a beautiful 23-mile run from Girdwood to Eagle River through Alaska's Chugach State Park, one of the nation's premier state parks. So when my coach, Rebecca McKee, recommended I give it a try with one of her other runners, Ian McCool, I