Ok, so now I have been to your school and you know
all about Foxy and Kelly. I put this secret page on the web site
so you could look at the videos I showed at school again and you can
share them with members of your family. I have also included many more
videos that I did not have time to show at school. I hope you enjoy
watching them. I have also included a blog on the Arctic Winter Games (AWG). The link to that page
is to the left of this paragraph. There are pictures and videos from the
1990 and 1992 games when Kelly represented the State of Alaska in the
Dog Mushing event.
You can also email me with any questions you might have after watching
the videos. edwhite192@gmail.com
Here is the clip of KTUU Channel 2's John Carpenter interviewing
me the week the book was first published.
This is the clip of me getting Foxy ready to go for a
training run and Foxy running at the Tozier Sled Dog Trail.
Here is the clip of me interviewing Kelly the day she won
her first race.
This is the short clip of the sports broadcast that night
during KTUU Channel 2's evening news broadcast.
This clip is of day three of the 1987 Junior World Championship
Sled Dog Race. It shows Kelly running first then two other competitors.
The weekend after the Junior World Championship Race, the adults race in
the World Championship Race. The race starts downtown the same place as
the Iditarod starts on 4th Avenue. The mushers race 5 miles through town
out to the sled dog trails. They then race 15 miles out there before heading
back into town the same way they went out. There are a lot of people downtown
who watch the start and finish of the race. There is about an hour from the
time the last musher leaves and the first musher returns. So to entertain
the people watching the race, sometimes they have children race down the
street. When they invited Kelly and Foxy to race, I wasn't sure Foxy would
be able to do it. She had never raced on a street before. I took Foxy and
Kelly down to the starting line and Mom waited at the finish line. I was
sure Foxy would ignore the crowd and try to get to Mom and the raw liver
as fast as she could. The team in front of Kelly wasn't so luck as you can
see below.
This is a clip from ESPN. They came to our house and shot about 4
hours of video. They ended up using one minute and 23 seconds. This is
what they put on television.
In 1988 when Kelly was racing in the two-dog class she was sponsored
by the Anchorage radio station KFQD. One weekday morning before a big
race Kelly was interviewed on the radio by KFQD's Marcus in the Morning.
You can listen to the interview below.
One question I get asked often when I visit schools is, "Did you
ever race in a sled dog race?" Of course the answer to that question is
yes. Then someone will ask, "Did you ever win a race?" I put the clip below
on here just to prove to everyone I won a race. My complete race record along with Kelly's and Mom's is on the author page of this
web site.
Other people want to know what we did with the dogs in the summertime.
We didn't do much with them. Then someone came up with an idea to race
them around a football field in a thing called a Sacco cart. It was a
lot of fun. The dogs loved it as much as we did. Then they put on some
races for the tourists in Fairbanks, Alaska, and over 50 people would show
up to race. I drove up to the Fairbanks races twice and won enough money
to pay for my gas up and back. Here is a clip from one of the races.