Women of the Iditarod

I was spending some time going through the musher list and checking out all the gals that are entered in this year's Iditarod--and there are a lot of them. I mean, I heard on the radio that this was National Women's Month and all, so I thought I'd see what the backgrounds of the women in the Iditarod were.

There are doctors, nurses, lawyers, runway models, business woman and women who do or have done everything in between. Most have their own kennels of dogs after having worked with those of others. Some are young some are in their 50s. (Which is still "young" to me!)

But I think I'm in love with this gal who is wearing Bib #38: Kristy Berington

Kristy Berington, age 25, was born and raised in Northern Wisconsin. Kristy says that together with her twin sister, Anna, the pair started handling and running dogs at a neighbor's sprint kennel. Their first dog team consisted of a Great Pyrenees and a Border Collie, pulling a sled they built out of a pair of downhill skis and a milk crate. The two continued to share their love of dogs and the outdoors, and eventually were drawn to Alaska because of these interests.
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On her rookie run to Nome, Kristy will be running a team of Gebhardt dogs, and hopefully a more sophisticated sled than she first started mushing with.

Good looking (go see for yourself), a member of the Army National Guard, adventurous and a twin. What's not to like?

Oh, and she's not the model. That would be Zoya DeNure in Bib # 5.

Zoya DeNure, 33, was born and raised in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. She worked as an International runway model for twelve years, working in such place as Shanghai, China and Milan, Italy.

Also a gorgeous woman, but she's already taken.