Christian Turner is fast-tracking his Iditarod training, running hills early in the morning near his home in Queensland, before the temperature climbs later in the day. It was pushing 100 degrees there recently.
Among the Iditarod dog mushers to sign up for the 2023 race, just before a recent, important deadline, is Australian Christian Turner.
“And I just jokingly messaged him saying, ‘I’ll run your team.’ That’s really all I wrote was, ‘I’ll run your team.’ And he private messaged me, straight away and said, ‘Let’s make this happen,’” Turner said. “I hadn’t thought about it seriously at all. I was just like, ‘Oh, I’ll throw that little comment in there,’ and he wrote back, like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ And I was like, ‘OK, now I’ve got to talk to my wife, I’ve got to actually be serious about this.
But it’s the cold temperature in Alaska, like the 50 below he experienced in the 2015 race in Huslia, that’s on Turner’s mind.
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