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Pat and John
First and Second place finishers John Stamstad and Pat Norwil called from Anchorage, Alaska, the day after the end of this brutal, 320 mile test of human endurance. Listen as John and Pat talk about what it's like to ride for days in below zero temperatures on a trail that at times seems to disappear.

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"It's 20° below zero and you're facing a walk through water..."
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"I thought it was very risky, both Pat and Greg to attempt that..."
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"You know it was simply relentless, it was kind of a consistent 0 degrees and a 20 to 25 mile an hour headwind..."
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"The trailbreakers could not find the trail, and we were both out there, right on the edge..."
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"Four people quit the first night and that was only a 35-mile effort to get into the mandatory overnighter..."
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"You had to light, what, three fires?"
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