Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found
He was doing OK and resting in the community of Unalakleet, he posted on Instagram Sunday. The Iditarod was caring for his dogs, he said.
Sass said he had been sick the entire race with a bad cold. Then on Friday “some cracked teeth started giving me issues and over a 12-hour period turned into nearly unbearable pain," he said."My body basically shutdown and for two runs I just hung on. Ultimately I couldn’t care for the dogs.“ He said the colder temperatures, dipping to minus 30 F , were making his dog team stronger, but it made him weaker., causing some to alter their strategies.
Redington will earn about $50,000 for winning. The exact amount won’t be calculated until the total number of finishers are known to split the prize purse.Pete Kaiser, who is Yup'ik and won the 2019 IditarodRedington won the Iditarod in his 16th try. He scratched from seven of those races, but his performance this decade has been the best of his career. He finished ninth last year, seventh in 2021 and eighth in 2020 — his only other top 10 finishes before this year's race.
Redington splits his time between Alaska and Wisconsin. He trains his dogs in Brule, Wisconsin, in the fall and winter. He races in Alaska and Minnesota beginning in December. In the summers, he has a sled dog tour for tourists in the ski community of Girdwood, about 30 miles south of Anchorage.snowmobile driver veered into his dog team,One of the dogs, Wildfire, suffered a broken rear tibia, fibula and femur but recovered after multiple surgeries and started this year’s race.
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