Musher practice only hinted at the big race

The person who called it “the last great race on earth” was probably right.

The Iditarod is run each year the first weekend in March, with the next one is kicking off March 2, 2019.

It’s the sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles.

There are actually two routes they use, one for even numbered years and another for odd numbered years, each just shy of the 1,00...