Podcast appearances and mentions of Libby Riddles

In this one, Cody talks to dog musher Libby Riddles. She was the first woman to win the Iditarod. Back in 1985, she made the decision to push through a storm — a choice that would cement her place in history. While others hunkered down, she bet on her team's strength and her own resilience, forging ahead into whiteout conditions and brutal winds. It was a bold, calculated risk, and it paid off. But for Libby, just doing the Iditarod was a big deal. She says that as long as she did her best and gave it 100 percent, she really didn't care where the chips fell. And part of that was breaking the race down — not thinking about the entire 1,000 miles, but just getting to the next checkpoint. Manageable goals. That mindset, along with her deep connection to her dogs, helped her make history.  Her deep relationship with her dogs helped carry her to victory in the 1985 Iditarod, and in the years since, she's become an advocate for the sport, working to help people understand what dog mushing is really about. These days, it can be tricky for people to grasp— most of us see dogs as companions, not as athletes bred for endurance and work. But those who rely on working dogs, like service animals, tend to understand the dynamic better. And when people see sled dogs in action — on a dogsledding tour or in a race — they get it. They see the excitement, the energy, and the joy these dogs have for running, and they start to understand why mushing isn't just a sport, it's a way of life.

Libby Riddles was the first woman to win the Iditarod. Back in 1985, she made the decision to push through a storm — a choice that would cement her place in history. While others hunkered down, she bet on her team's strength and her own resilience, forging ahead into whiteout conditions and brutal winds. It was a bold, calculated risk, and it paid off. But for Libby, just doing the Iditarod was a big deal. She says that as long as she did her best and gave it 100 percent, she really didn't care where the chips fell. And part of that was breaking the race down — not thinking about the entire 1,000 miles, but just getting to the next checkpoint. Manageable goals. That mindset, along with her deep connection to her dogs, helped her make history. Her deep relationship with her dogs helped carry her to victory in the 1985 Iditarod, and in the years since, she's become an advocate for the sport, working to help people understand what dog mushing is really about. These days, it can be tricky for people to grasp — most of us see dogs as companions, not as athletes bred for endurance and work. But those who rely on working dogs, like service animals, tend to understand the dynamic better. And when people see sled dogs in action — on a dogsledding tour or in a race — they get it. They see the excitement, the energy and the joy these dogs have for running, and they start to understand why mushing isn't just a sport, it's a way of life.

On this day in 1985, Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clara tells the story of Libby Riddles, the first woman Iditarod winner! Alex tells us the story of the first Academy Awards along with some facts. Don't forget to apply to be a Hot Dogger to drive the wiener mobile.

Tommy and Scott discuss their experiences at the Discovery Princess naming ceremony. The last of the Royal Class of Princess ships, this beautiful vessel is the crowning achievement of Princess Cruises. With it's fine appointments, beautiful staterooms, stunning Piazza, relaxing Enclave, delicious Slice Pizza, specialty restaurants, and more, the Discovery Princess takes you to a new place of rejuvenation, relaxation and revitalization.  Scott shares about his recent Alaskan cruise on the Discovery Princess as well. Highlighting some of the most memorable moments of his cruise vacation.  Scott was able to enjoy a presentation on the ship with Libby Riddles, the first woman in the world to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/MaG_s82hNic We hope you enjoy this new episode! Tommy & Scott  

Since writing a book report on Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Iditarod sled dog race, Dr. Charlotte Talbert has dreamed to be a veterinarian for these amazing dogs. North Carolina-raised, Charlotte is a 2020 graduate from Lincoln Memorial College of vet med in Tennessee and is now in a rehabilitation and sports medicine residency in Minnesota. We talk about her experience working with amazing sled dogs before veterinary school and her research with other athletic dogs such as in the sport skijoring – yep, I had to Google that one. What I found most special about Charlotte is modesty. Like most of us, she has had to fight a lack of self-confidence to fight toward her dreams. Link to the YouTube conversation: https://youtu.be/PZyqYPJL3wM

On a recent sub-zero day on a frozen lake in central Minnesota, I got a chance to witness great team leadership in action.  It was a crash course in what leading winning teams is all about.  Here's what the experience was like, and five key lessons from the leaders themselves that we can all use in leading our own teams.Notes and Resources:Prefer to read?  Here's the full post:Leading Winning Teams: 5 Leadership Lessons from MushersA great article posted on LinkedIn by Aaron Phillips goes even farther into detail with his conversations with several of the mushers featured in this podcast.If you are interested in a deeper dive into the interface between mushing and leadership, an hour well-spent would be with the Always in Pursuit podcast interview with 5x Iditarod champion musher Dallas Seavey, hosted by Mike Burke, an exceptional leader in his own right.  Quotable:“I have to figure out how to make each dog reach its best potential.”- Libby Riddles, first woman to win the Iditarod“They're a great team because I eat beans and rice and they eat steak and eggs. - Iditarod musher Lance Mackay“Good leaders do not secure their position by making others less confident.   - Caroline Blair-Smith, Musher“It is not what the challenge is, it's how the team handles the challenge.”- Dallas Seavey, 5-Time Iditarod Champion“My job is to make sure these dogs succeed.  The race portion will take care of itself.”- Dallas Seavey Related posts: How to Respond to Crisis: Four Steps for LeadersPositive Feedback – Catch them Doing Something RightRapid Deliberation: 7 Ways to Hit the Target While Under Stress

Our guest on this episode was born in Madison, Wisconsin and moved to Alaska before she turned 17. She saw a sprint dog race and fell in love with mushing. In 1985 she won the Leonard Seppala... Join us as we sit down and talk with the many people involved in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. We will be interviewing mushers, volunteers, wives, parents, even an athlete who has biked the trail, and many more. Our show is broken down into segments; Who Inspires You? Q&A, and Musher Mount Rushmore. Sit back, relax, and learn about the Iditarod from the people who experience the race firsthand.

American dog musher Libby Riddles, is the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race. With trailblazing grit, Libby takes us into the world, her world, of crossing the finish line!

Since 1973, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has brought together humans and dogs. They work together traversing nearly 1000 miles of brutal conditions across the frozen landscapes of the Alaskan tundra. Author Matt Geiger shares the story of Wisconsin native, Libby Riddles, the first woman to win this world-renowned race.

This week, the Babes chat about Colombian rebel Policarpa Salavarrieta and musher Libby Riddles.

In our first quarantine episode of STAB!, John Morris Ross IV welcomed Cory Barringer and David Thorne from a distance, and Jesse Jones from less of a distance, to share their three different FUUUCKs, nine Google searches from the United States Government, their thoughts on Maximinus Thrax, Lego Land, the Great Boston Fire, Libby Riddles, … Continue reading »

Mikhail Horowitz is back with Haikus from Japan about baseball. We LOVE Mik and Harry LOVES the guitar and turns everything into one. And we mean everything. Also Washboard Jungle singing a nutty version of "Momma don't Allow" and Libby Riddles with Fishhead stew. Also if the midwest is America's Heartland, Harry wants to know where the Liverland is.

Amanda brings the incredible story of Annie "Londonderry", the first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle...kind of. Rita shares the story of Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Iditarod. Plus, hear about the trials and tribulations of being women in the media. Vocal fry, anyone?

Libby Riddles makes history for women in winning Iditarod Trail dogsled race. In 1925, a diphtheria epidemic required medical supplies to be rushed to Nome, Alaska. Traditional methods of transport could get no goods further than within 674 miles of the site. Teams of dogsleds rushed the precious medicine the rest of the way. In 1973, Alaskan officials decided to memorialize this traipse by turning the 1,150-mile Iditarod Trail between Anchorage and Nome into an official race. Soon, hardy drivers (mushers) and their dog teams from around the world were flocking to the gruelling event. In 1980, a young woman who had moved from Wisconsin to Alaska at the age of 16 entered her first Iditarod race and placed 18th. After landing 20th the following year, she knew she needed a new approach, so she teamed up with Joe Garnie to breed and train her own dogs. On March 20, 1985, through a blinding blizzard, Riddles crossed the finish line after 18 days, 20 minutes and 17 seconds on the trail. She became the first woman to win the race and its $50,000 purse, and cashed in on her victory by becoming an author and public speaker besides a race-dog breeder. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's special guest was the first woman to win the The Last Great Race, the Iditarod. Listen as she talks about that special race in 1985. She also talks with us about being a positive female... Join us as we sit down and talk with the many people involved in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. We will be interviewing mushers, volunteers, wives, parents, even an athlete who has biked the trail, and many more. Our show is broken down into segments; Who Inspires You? Q&A, and Musher Mount Rushmore. Sit back, relax, and learn about the Iditarod from the people who experience the race firsthand.

On this date in 1985, Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail sled dog race. Here are some things you might not have known about the annual tradition. The Iditarod is run in honor of the 1925 serum run, which was a sled dog relay to deliver a diphtheria antitoxin to the town of Nome during an outbreak. 20 mushers combined to haul 20 pounds of serum 674 miles in about five and a half days. A particularly treacherous leg of the route was run by Norwegian Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog Togo. The final leg was run by Norwegian Gunnar Kaasen and his lead dog Balto. Later that year a statue of Balto was placed in New York’s Central Park, where it remains a popular tourist attraction. It took Dick Wilmarth 20 days, 49 minutes and 41 seconds to win the first modern Iditarod race in 1973. In 2017, the race was won by Mitch Seavey in a record 8 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes and 13 seconds. Seavey also broke his own record as the oldest person to win the race at 57 years old. His son Dallas Seavey was the youngest to win at age 25 in 2012. He’s since won the race three more times. The winningest musher is Rick Swenson, who has five victories. Susan Butcher, Martin Buser, Jeff King, Doug Swingley, and Lance Mackey  join Dallas Seavey in the four-time winners’ club. Our question: What’s the name of the peninsula on which Nome is located? Today is the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, International Day of Happiness, World Sparrow Day, and Independence Day in Tunisia It’s unofficially French Language Day, International Astrology Day, and National Ravioli Day. It’s the birthday of playwright Henrik Ibsen, who as born in 1828; comedian Carl Reiner, who is 95; and children’s TV pioneer Fred Rogers, who was born in 1928. Because we’ve recently featured 1985, we’ll spin the wheel to pick a year at random. This week in 1977, the top song in the U.S. was “Rich Girl” by Hall and Oates. The No. 1 movie was “Airport ’77,” while the novel “Trinity” by Leon Uris topped the New York Times Bestsellers list.  Weekly question: How much per acre did the United States pay for Alaska in 1867? Submit your answer at triviapeople.com/test and we’ll add the name of the person with the first correct answer to our winner’s wall … at triviapeople.com. We'll have the correct answer on Friday’s episode. Links Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or our website. Also, if you’re enjoying the show, please consider supporting it through Patreon.com Please rate the show on iTunes by clicking here. Subscribe on iOS: http://apple.co/1H2paH9  Subscribe on Android: http://bit.ly/2bQnk3m  Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_serum_run_to_Nome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20 https://www.checkiday.com/3/20/2017 http://www.biography.com/people/groups/born-on-march-20 http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1977_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Best_Sellers_of_1977

Today Team Takotna tests your skills with some Trail Trivia, remembers the story of Libby Riddles and Balto, gives the science behind the dogs and compares the number of checkpoints each year. Enjoy!

The Iditarod dog-sled race runs through 1,000 miles of Arctic wildnerness in Alaska and is regarded as one of the toughest sporting events in the world. In the winter of 1985, Libby Riddles drew international attention to the Iditarod by becoming the first woman to win. She talks to Robert Nicholson. The programme is a Whistledown Production. It was first broadcast in January 2016. (Photo: Libby Riddles in 1985. Credit: Associated Press)

The Iditarod dog-sled race runs through 1,000 miles of Arctic wildnerness in Alaska and is regarded as one of the toughest sporting events in the world. In the winter of 1985, Libby Riddles drew international attention to the Iditarod by becoming the first woman to win. She talks to Robert Nicholson. The programme is a Whistledown Production. (Photo: Libby Riddles in 1985. Credit: Associated Press)

We’re in St. Louis as the city’s American football franchise packs up and moves to Los Angeles. We speak to one fan looking at making a 3000 mile round trip just to watch home games! Real Life Action Man: We hear from Tony Schiena the former undefeated karate world champion turned Hollywood action man who in his spare time fights for the rights of the victims of sex trafficking. Baseball Pioneer: We remember the life and career of baseball’s Monte Irvin who alongside Jackie Robinson changed the face of not only the sport, but American society. He passed away this week aged 96. Basketball Inventor: We delve into newly discovered archives to hear from the man who invented basketball over 100 years ago. IAAF: The Future of Athletics: After a week of revelations and soul searching we look at the state of athletics ahead of the Rio Games. We’ll hear from one athlete who is concerned she’ll be lining up against ‘dirty’ competitors at the Olympics in a few months’ time. Sporting Witness In the Alaskan wilderness a notoriously punishing 1,000 mile dog-sled, or mushing race called the Iditarod takes place. We hear from Libby Riddles, who in 1985 became the first woman to win it. (Picture: A fan displays a sign in support of keeping the St. Louis Rams in St. Louis. Credit: Getty Images)

Join Oh Behave show host Arden Moore as she is your tour guide into the world of pets and animals in Alaska. Special guests include Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Iditarod dog sled race and Juneau residents who share the legendary tale of Patsy Ann, the deaf bull terrier - and more. So tune in today and find out more about our 49th state. Questions or Comments? Send them to: arden@petliferadio.com. More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Arden in Alaska: Sled Dogs, Eagles, Grizzly Bears - Oh My on Pet Life Radio var ACE_AR = {Site: '845738', Size: '468060'};