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...Although Butcher set a record this year for the race, winning it in 11 days and beating her own time last year, her next goal is to complete the race in 10 days, she said in an interview last week sponsored by her outfitter Allied Fibers. She was two hours from this record this year...
...brought life-saving anti-toxin from Anchorage to dipheria-stricken Nome Alaska in 1925, the winner took 21 days to finish. "Everybody says, 'It will never be done in 10 days.' I have shaved off 31 hours [from the previous record]. I think I can shave off two more," Butcher says...
...fact that she is a woman has not disadvantaged her in the slightest, Butcher says. "Women are equally good in their stamina, and in the training of animals. You don't have to be the physically strongest or physically fastest, so you do very well," she says...
Equally important for dog-racing success, says the 32-year-old Butcher, is a love of animals. "I loved animals. That was part of where my hate for society--which is what I called it then [when she was a child]--came from," Butcher says...
...hate, or at lest distaste, for the more comfortable things in life can never hurt while you are running an 11-days race in the freezing cold. "You can't think that you could be in a nice, warm bathtub," Butcher advises...