Editor’s note: Richland Source is posting daily updates on Mansfield native Matthew Failor’s efforts at the 2024 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Updates post daily at 8 a.m. (UPDATE: Matthew Failor ended his 24-hour rest period Thursday at 10:04 a.m. AKST (2:04 p.m. EST) and has resumed mushing on the Iditarod trail with still 15 dogs […]
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‘Moving Day’ at the Iditarod: Mandatory 24-hour rest period triggers strategy
Editor’s note: Richland Source is posting daily updates on Mansfield native Matthew Failor’s efforts at the 2024 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Updates post daily at 8 a.m. (UPDATE: Matthew Failor reached the Ophir checkpoint Wednesday around 1:38 p.m. EST and is now resting his team, which has traveled 352 miles since Sunday afternoon. He is […]
Mansfield native off and mushing in 2024 Iditarod Sled Dog Race in Alaska
ON THE IDITAROD TRAIL, Alaska — Mansfield native Matthew Failor is off and mushing in the 2024 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. After the traditional ceremonial start in Anchorage on Saturday, the 38 mushers in the field of “The Last Great Race” left from nearby Willow on Sunday afternoon, launching a journey of nearly 1,000 miles […]
Ready, set mush: Mansfield native has big hopes for 2024 Iditarod race
WILLOW, ALASKA — Matthew Failor has a lot more responsibilities these days than when he mushed in his first Iditarod Sled Dog Race more than a decade ago. — Husband to Liz, whom he married in 2020. — Father to Theo, born just eight months ago. — Business owner of Alaskan Husky Adventures, which provides […]
Mansfield native preps for Iditarod with 2nd-place finish in Alaska’s ‘Kusko 300’
BETHEL, Alaska — No one knows better than Matthew Failor that Pete Kaiser is hard to beat on his home track. But the Mansfield native pushed the eight-time champ to the finish this weekend in the 45th annual Kuskokwim 300 sled-dog that begins and ends in Kaiser’s home town of Bethel. It’s the third straight […]
Racing to the past: Iditarod sled dog success allows Mansfield native to salute Alaskan culture
WILLOW, Alaska — Matthew Failor fell in love with native Alaskan culture during a summer internship at the Mendenhall Glacier nearly two decades ago. That love affair has continued to grow — now shared by his wife of almost three years, their soon-to-be-born first child … and 50 Alaskan Huskies. The Mansfield native recently completed his 12th Iditarod Sled Dog Race, […]