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艾迪塔羅德越野狗橇賽
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您曾參加過賽跑嗎？距離多長？
您想參加一個1,000多哩長的比賽？而且沿途還包括了多變的氣候、
並且持續9至20天曝露在零下的溫度中，而且大部分的賽程都在伸手不見五指且看不見方向的暴風中進行！聽起來很不可思議嗎？但對那些參加阿拉斯加的艾迪塔羅德
越野狗橇賽的人來說，他們每年都是這麼渡過的。
艾迪塔羅德(唸做eye-DIT-a-rod)賽事被稱做「世上最後的偉大競賽」(the
last great race on Earth)，它的參賽隊伍是由12至16隻狗組成的拉雪橇隊，負責駕駛這支雪橇隊的男人或女人則叫做「musher」。這個比賽於每年三月的第一個星期六開跑，賽程起自南部的安克拉治，終於西部臨白令海的諾姆；這段賽程會帶著musher翻山越領，
穿過濃密的森林，橫渡凍結的河流及苔原。每年離開起跑線的musher有50至80人，但對大部分的musher而言，他們的主要目標只是跑完整段賽程。艾迪塔羅德賽事是人類及動物對抗大自然的終極測試。
Have you ever been in a race? How long was it?
How would you like to be in a race that is more than 1,000 miles long, involves treacherous climbs, and lasts for nine to 20 days in sub-zero temperatures, much of it in darkness and blinding winds? Sounds incredible? Well, that is what some people do every year in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska.
Called "the last great race on Earth," the Iditarod (pronounced eye-DIT-a-rod) consists of teams of 12 to 16 dogs pulling a sled driven by a man or woman, called a "musher." The race, which begins on the first Saturday every March, runs from Anchorage in the south to Nome on the western Bering Sea. The journey takes the mushers over mountains, through dense forests, and across frozen rivers and tundra. Each year 50 to 80 mushers leave the starting gate, and for many of them their main goal is just to complete the race. The Iditarod is the ultimate test of humans and animals against nature.
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