Iditapod bonus episode! Listen to our interview with reigning Iditarod champ Brent Sass. He talks about last year's nail-biting finish, his hectic life at his homestead and his newfound confidence.
As the 33 Iditarod teams are out mushing the first couple hundred miles of trail Monday, we’re working on another full episode of the Iditapod.
It was frozen up. Outside it was -25F and blowing 20 miles an hour so there was no hope. It was, like, 3:30 in the morning. So again, like I’d been doing for the last give days, I slept in the truck. In the morning, my handlers, they came out with the heaters and all the stuff to try and get the machine going.Yeah, I did. I’ve gotten probably give hours of sleep — one good night — since the race. But it’s a huge check.
Slater leads Brent Sass into White Mountain in last year’s Iditarod. He called Slater “probably the best sled dog I’ll ever drive.” You talked about this a little bit last year with us when we interviewed you post Iditarod, the way that you like to have your dogs — I think you compared it to having a family — you bring them inside your house, for example.
But you have to have a certain lifestyle. I mean, when you have 16 dogs, you have to really love it because it’s not for everybody now. In the last 20 years, probably. If I get four hours of sleep during the season a night, that’s a win. It’s the passion that I have for this sport in my lifestyle. And, I mean, I don’t have a choice because there’s too many things to do.
Brent Sass at a property he owns in Goldstream Valley, where he sometimes bases out of during the race season. Is there a physical or emotional or psychological toll of charging so hard in your life all the time? How long do you think you can do that for?: We’ll see. I mean, I crash. Like, getting this food drop done, it’s a big moment. Now, the pressure is kind of off.
But when you win the Iditarod, it is the top. It’s the top of the food chain. I think the biggest change for me is that I came out of it going, you know what, ‘The last 10 years I did figure something out. I did learn from all those mistakes I’ve made over the years. And I have refined my training and my training program, for both me and the dogs.’ And so I have a lot more confidence going into this season knowing that what I’m doing works and that I just need to continue doing it.
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