The Lane of Pain challenge was something I thought up one day while bike on Emerald Mountain.
In Nikolai, Alaska the previous year, I meet some young kids who watched us get ready to setout into the darkness on our last night of the ITI350 in March of 2019. We shared a few words and I gave them some Chocolate bars off my bike to eat. As I rode up the Lane while training for the ITI1000 scheduled for March of 2020, I began thinking about the drop bags I would be sending on to Alaska. I thought of those young kids. The idea occurred to me. I should throw a little extra something in my drop bags for them. The idea progressed and evolved into a sponsored training challenge. I was able to use that money to help support those living along the Iditarod Trail.
I rode the Lane over 100 times in the summer of 2019, which encompassed over 180,000 feet climbing and just under 1,000 miles of riding total. Out of those 100 rides, only 19 were solos efforts. During the rest, I had company, sometimes a whole crew. On the final ride, over 80 people joined me 'up the Lane'. Over $20,000 dollars was raised through the challenge which was used for donations to the various schools along Alaska's Iditarod Trail. Some of the funds were also donated to other non-profits including in Rebecca Rusch's Be Good Foundation and the Seal Future Foundation which had two representatives participate in the ITI350.
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