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Our Boy in Alaska

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Apart from wishing Shaggy all the best, we’ll be checking for updates on both his official ‘Dazeoftundra‘ blog and on the Official Iditarod Website

Here’s a shot of the start that we poached from Shaggy’s website. It’s from Carl Hutchings. Hope you don’t mind, Carl…
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We highly recommend reading Shaggy’s blog – not just to see how he’s getting on, but to see some of the preparation he’s put into the event… Here’s just one entry where he lists the contents of his ‘drop bags’ which contain two days’ food – or 8000 calories per day…

“Each bag is 16,000 kCal- 2 days worth of food, they weighed in at about 9lb each. Obviously I’ll be carrying more from the start and there are a few places where food should be available on the course.

Here’s what I packed in each bag:
Mule Bars
Trail mix- nuts, raisins, chocolate raisins, M&Ms, jelly beans, dried fruit and berries, coconut flakes…
Spare batteries, Lithium of course.
Gels, some caffeinated.
Chamois cream
Pop tarts (an old Iditabike favourite- they hardly freeze and are dense with calories!)
Pepperami
Assorted chocolate bars
Wasabi bean mix
Pork scratchings
Beef jerky
Nuun tablets
Cough sweets
Hot chocolate
Instant soup
One Reiter dehydrated meal
Clif Shot Blocks
Hand warmers
Vitamin tablets”

Go Shaggy! Checking the leaderboard at 2am, he was second equal with James Leavesley behind a storming Jeff Oatley. Keep up to date here

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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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