400 Mile Training Run on the Denali Highway

[@TexasRoadrunners]

Awesome! I love seeing these videos. I am so looking forward to the Iditarod this year. I can feel #6 coming. Thanks for posting.

[@RaisedinAlaska]

Godspeed Dallas.

[@thewildnorthnetley3054]

Very cool insight love it.

[@kimberlyshalaby1134]

Good Luck Dallas! It seems like alot but it's everything you & your team needs to get through this 400 miles. Sounds like they'll eat better than you. Will all the added weight on back of your sled slow you & your team down? Looking forward to seeing more of what challenges you & your team face out there. Stay warm. GO DALLAS!

[@tagaldersibes]

Just curious as to why s few of the older dogs don’t need the miles? Are you resting them or preventing possible injuries?

[@alekseyshubinkin9667]

A video without at least one dog isn't counting. Just joke:) great as always!

[@aspincanine9616]

Hey a newbie question. If you are doing a 30miles run. Do you run your dog the whole 30 miles. Or you take a break every 10miles or how often would you give them a break and for how long.

[@jacquelinelynch4713]

I am simply a fellow fan but I know they can run longer than 30 miles in one go. I believe 40-50 is an easy routine run. These dogs have the largest heart for their size of any mammal. They can do much more than we non-mushers really understand. They also heal up in hours minor scratches and pulls that humans would take days to heal! Tip: Asking a racer their run/rest schedule is kind of an impossible question to answer. That is proprietary information on which they have spent oodles of work! In Dallas' case, he has spent years studying others' race schedules and also studying his particular dogs to come up with both the race schedule for this particular run and also to be able to adjust it on the fly, constantly reading his dogs and constantly recalculating. People ask him how does he spend the long hours on the trail. There are occasionally times when he listens to audio-books, but he can easily spend 8 hours studying each dog's gait and calculating and re-calculating what his plan is for the next checkpoint and the next run. And that is not including all the considerations about changing dogs in the team--who needs a break from leading, who is nipping at his neighbor and needs to run single and who leads best in flat country, on steep trails, or in storms. The variables in mushing the Iditarod are amazingly complex!