{"id":25145,"date":"2014-10-25T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/?p=25145"},"modified":"2014-11-18T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:29:19","slug":"races-can-hurt-fat-bikes-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2014\/10\/25\/races-can-hurt-fat-bikes-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Races That Can Hurt:
Fat Bikes in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you love snow, extreme sports and cycling? Apply for the Iditarod Trail Invitational and ride a fat bike across Alaska. You would be hard pressed to find a tougher challenge on a bike.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The inspiration for this race is the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race, which since 1973 sends competitors on a trail between Seward City and Nome along the Bering Sea coast. One of the stops on the trail is now an abandoned gold rush settlement, Iditarod, which means \u201ca distant place\u201d in native Athabaska. There is no support from the organizers and lost contestants have little chance of surviving. That is why the Iditarod is the last great race where it is more important to survive than to win.<\/p>\n