After Sports Were Canceled, Only the Iditarod Remained
The grueling month-long dog race was more than half complete when the coronavirus began to spread
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5 min readMar 21, 2020
As Aaron Peck’s dogsled cut a path across the icy Alaskan wilderness, an unshakeable melancholy crept into his normally steely focus on the task at hand. The veteran musher was trying to get to Nome. Preferably…