Four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Jeff King wants the 1,000-mile race across Alaska to change.
In an opinion piece published in the Anchorage Daily News, King proposes that roughly the first third of the race should be untimed. King says there would be a deadline to reach a particular checkpoint — he suggests McGrath, more than 300 miles into the race — and teams that met the deadline would then undergo a race restart, with the race clock ticking for the remaining trail to Nome.
King also thinks the Iditarod should return to a limit of 14 dogs per team, down from the current limit of 16…