The 100 Toughest Races in the World
- 1. Tour de France
- 2. Tour D'Afrique
- 3. Peak Death Race
- 4. Odyssey Endorphin Fix
- 5. Race Across the West
- 6. Texas Water Safari
- 7. Arrowhead (Footrace)
- 8. Cape Epic
- 9. Yukon River Quest
- 10. Great Divide Race
- 11. Arrowhead (ski)
- 12. Barkley Marathons
- 13. Atacama Crossing
- 14. Adirondack 540
- 15. Jungle Marathon
- 16. Tour of California
- 17. Hurt 100
- 18. Furnace creek 508
- 19. Gobi March
- 20. Hard Rock 100
- 21. St. Croix Coral Reef Swim Race
- 22. BC Bike Race
- 23. Badwater 135
- 24. Marathon De Sable
- 25. Planet Adventure
- 26. Wasatch Front 100
- 27. 24 Hours of Lappe
- 28. Trans Rockies
- 29. Mount Rushmore Trail 100
- 30. Bear 100
- 31. Bighorn 100
- 32. Primal Quest
- 33. Kayak the Nile
- 34. Avalon 50 Miles
- 35. Leadville Trail 100 (Run)
- 36. Manhattan Marathon Island Swim
- 37. La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge
- 38. McNaughton Park 150 Mile Trail Run
- 39. AuSable River Canoe Marathon
- 40. Rock and Ice Ultra
- 41. Grand Tetons 100
- 42. Plain 100
- 43. Massanutten Mounta Trails 100
- 44. Canadian Death Race
- 45. Peak Races 200 Mile Funeral Run
- 46. Kettle Moraine 100
- 47. Zane Grey 50
- 48. Coastal Crawl 10K Swim
- 49. Arctic Circle Race
- 50. Ironman Lake Placid
- 51. Devizes to Westminster
- 52. IronMan Lanzarotes (Spain)
- 53. IronMan Canada
- 54. IronMan Hawaii World Championship
- 55. Silver State 50
- 56. Breckenridge 100
- 57. Swim Miami
- 58. Dusi Canoe Marathon
- 59. Isuzu Berg River
- 60. Mt Hood PCT 50
- 61. White River 50
- 62. Quicksilver 50
- 63. Leona Divide 50
- 64. Bridge to Bridge Swim
- 65. DaIsland Canoe Marathon
- 66. McKenzie River 50
- 67. Western States 100
- 68. WildFlower Long Course Triathlon
- 69. Avon Descent
- 70. North Routt Coureur des Bois
- 71. Alcatraz Challenge
- 72. La Traversee du Lac Saint-Jean
- 73. Oosik Classic Ski Race
- 74. Grand Defi des Glaces
- 75. The Big Swim
- 76. Horsetooth Open Water 10K
- 77. Peak Ultra Challenge
- 78. Iditarod
- 79. Gold Rush Adventure Challenge
- 80. MegaDose 4-Day Adventure
- 81. Untamed VA
- 82. Raid the North Extreme
- 83. Polar Challenge
- 84. North Face Tour du Mont Blanc
- 85. Overmountain Extreme
- 86. Herc Open Hiking Race
- 87. The BEAR (Beach Extreme Adventure Race)
- 88. Soggy Bottom 100
- 89. Cascade Cream Puff
- 90. Leadville Trail 100 (Bike)
- 91. Crocodile Trophy
- 92. La Ruta de Los Conquistadores
- 93. MT Hood Cycling Classic
- 94. RAAM
- 95. Trans UK
- 96. Equinox Ski Challenge
- 97. Vasaloppet
- 98. Pittsfield Snowshoe Marathon
- 99. Xtrail Asics trail race series
- 100. The Great amazon River Raft Race
#78
Iditarod
Description
You can't compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race over 1150 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow, long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Iditarod. A race extraordinaire, a race only possible in Alaska.
Event Details
| Categories | Adventure Racing |
| Host | Mark Nordman |
| Location | Anchorage, USA |
| Contact | Mark Nordman |
| Website | http://www.iditarod.com/ |
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| On Jan 4, 2010 Margery Glickman: | For the dogs, the Iditarod is a bottomless pit of suffering. Six dogs died in the 2009 Iditarod, including two dogs on Dr. Lou Packer's team who froze to death in the brutally cold winds. What happens to the dogs during the race includes death, paralysis, frostbite (where it hurts the most!), bleeding ulcers, bloody diarrhea, lung damage, pneumonia, ruptured discs, viral diseases, broken bones, torn muscles and tendons and sprains. At least 142 dogs have died in the race. No one knows how many dogs die after this tortuous ordeal or during training. For more facts, go to Sled Dog Action Coalition, http://www.helpsleddogs.org. |
The 2010 Iditarod Post Race ERunner is Online!
The 2010 Iditarod eRunner is available online right now. This edition of the eRunner is full of stories and photos about the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Click here to see it all!
Take a Look at the 2010 Iditarod Awards…
By clicking here now! This special edition of the 2010 eRunner includes photos and captions of the awards presented at the 2010 Finisher’s Banquet in Nome Alaska.
For those who want to see the Awards presentations, please click here to get the Insider look of the...
THE TARGET® 2011 IDITAROD TEACHER ON THE TRAIL ANNOUNCED!
Wasilla Alaska – (May 13, 2010) – Martha Dobson, Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, has been selected as the Target® 2011 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™.
Martha Dobson, an educator at Mount Pleasant Middle School, North Carolina, teaches...
He Might Make It Look Easy… But Lance Mackey and His Team Worked Hard For This One.
History was just made. For the first time ever someone has won four Iditarods in a row. On top of that Lance also won two Yukon Quests & Iditarods in the same year. We may never see a run like this again. Someone winning six out of eight thousand mile races in four years.
In Nome Lance reflected on this...
2010 Iditarod Finishers Banquet A Full House
The 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s Finishers Banquet was full of standing ovations and great cheers for what will certainly be one greatest races, in the now thirty eight year history of “The Last Great Race on Earth.” Lance Mackey accomplished four back to back Iditarod Championships. Iditarod rookie Celeste Davis shattered the Red Lantern record. Four time Iditarod Champion Jeff King completed his 21st Iditarod with the fastest time in his illustrious career… and finished...
Iditarod Elder, Dick Forsgren, Joins Joe Redington Sr. on the Trail
Richard 
Ellis Forsgren, 87, died March 19, 2010 at the Pioneer Home in Palmer AK. A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 PM at the American Legion in Wasilla, Mile 46 Parks Highway on Thursday, March 25.
Dick was born December 20, 1922 to Ellis and Goldie Forsgren in Portland, OR. Dick joined the Army Air Corp in...
A Little Insight on 4 Time Iditarod Champ Jeff King
Jeff King arrived at the finish line in Nome in third place with a great looking team that any musher would be proud of. If my numbers are right even though he finished third, he posted his fastest time ever with the clock stopping at 9 days, 2 hours & 22 minutes.
Listening to Jeff reflect on his race in...
A Tribute To Canadian Musher Hans Gatt
Hans Gatt turned in his best Iditarod finish ever but said at the finish line he most likely won’t run the Iditarod again. Though he sounded sincere, time will tell as many mushers say they won’t race again but time fogs the memory of the pain of the trail and off they go again. None the less,...
IDITAROD 2010 VOLUNTEER POTLUCK SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT!
IDITAROD XXXVIII all volunteer potluck is scheduled for 6 pm this evening (March 24th 2010) at the Millennium Alaskan Hotel in Anchorage Alaska. This annual festivity is a great opportunity for volunteers who participated in the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to join together and share the many memories they have of the race. The gathering will take place in the Redington Room on the 3rd floor of the Millennium. Iditarod Volunteer photographer, Jeff Schultz will be on hand to share...
DRUG TESTING RESULTS RECEIVED
Wasilla, Alaska – March 24, 2010 – Earlier today WorkSafe, Inc. provided the first of its findings to the Iditarod Trail Committee (ITC) from its drug testing efforts during this years race. Testing of samples from the majority of mushers who finished Iditarod XXXVIII are now complete. There were no adverse analytical findings, or positive tests, through the first 40 finishing positions. Test results for the remaining samples are expected by the beginning of next week.
