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When Jay Petervary joins 44 alternative impassioned bikers, runners and skiers in Knik on Sunday for a start of a Iditarod Trail Invitational, a Idaho cyclist’s pull for Nome will only be a splinter of his 2011 biking agenda.

In an bid to lift recognition of air wickedness worldwide, Petervary skeleton to pedal 7,000 miles on three imperishable rides that will take him opposite Alaska, down a spinal column of a Rocky Mountains and seashore to seashore in a lower 48.

That’s over than pedaling from Anchorage to Lima, Peru.

can you say chair rash?

"I’ve been competing in journey races and bike races for more than fifteen years," Petervary, 38, said. "The Invitational is only something you adore to do. It is regularly so different every year, that is a beauty of it.

"this year you longed for to plea myself a bit serve and take on a devise that also lifted environmental awareness."

Sunday will symbol Petervary’s fifth Invitational. he and mother Tracey finished a 1,000-mile competition on a tandem bike final year.

Petervary is one of eleven of a 45 racers who devise to transport all a way to Nome. For a rest, a finish line is 350 miles away in McGrath.

In a decade of Invitationals, only 33 racers have crossed a finish line in Nome — a far more disdainful bar than successful Mount Everest climbers or athletes who finish a Iditarod or Iron Dog races.

an unvarnished exam of humans relocating by inlet at a wildest, a competition offers minimal support.

"We talk about from alternative races in that you concede racers to make decisions for themselves about what to carry, when to rest and when it is protected to travel," bill Merchant, competition organizer and track manager, pronounced in a press release. "There is no directed towards or noted track only imperative checkpoints racers must pass through. We try to extent a volume of await to only what is necessary to forestall our competition from commanding on lodges and alternative folks along a trail.

"this competition is not for everyone. a inapplicable designation at a wrong time and place in a Alaskan winter forest could price you fingers and toes — or even your life."

Before a 1,000-mile racers strech Nome, they’ll be upheld by Iditarod mushers and their dog teams.

"Alaska’s a funny place to competition on a bike in winter — there have been so most variables and anything can happen," pronounced Petervary, who won a 350-mile float to McGrath in 2009.

The competition to McGrath has drawn several of Alaska’s tip continuation athletes. Among them:

• Anchorage biker Peter Basinger, a four-time and fortifying hold up who is also a jot down hilt (3 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes) for a float to McGrath.

• Fairbanks cyclist Jeff Oatley, a 2009 leader and runner-up final year.

• Janice Tower of Anchorage, hilt of a women’s jot down in a Fireweed 400 time trial.

For his part, Petervary may hardly mangle a persperate by a time he reaches McGrath.

The final two racing legs of what he’s job his no Idle Tour will be a 3,000-mile Race Across America (RAAM) highway bike competition in Jun and, two months after that, a 2,745-mile great Divide Time Trail from Banff, Alberta, to Antelope Wells, N.M., nearby a Mexican border. Four years ago, Petervary set a great Divide march jot down of fifteen days, 4 hours.

one emanate is whether Petervary can redeem in between events. In past years, it’s taken him up to six weeks to redeem from a Invitational.

"But final year after Nome, Tracey and you jumped onto a tandem for a several-hundred-mile sand millstone less than a month after and you felt great."

Reach Mike Campbell at mcampbell@adn.com or 257-4329.

Iditarod Invitational Records

350 miles (to McGrath)

Men’s bike — Peter Basinger in 2007: 3 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes

Women’s bike — Tracey Petervary in 2010: 4 days, eighteen hours, 52 minutes

Men’s foot — Steve Reifenstuhl in 2005: 4 days, fifteen hours

Women’s feet – Loreen Hewitt in 2010: 7 days, 10 hours, 58 minutes

Men’s ski — Jim Jager in 2002: 4 days, 8 hours

Women’s ski — Gail Koepf in 2005: 7 days, 6 hours, eighteen minutes

1,100 miles (to Nome)

Men’s bike — Mike Curiak in 2002: seventeen days 2 hours

Women’s bike – Tracey Petervary in 2010: eighteen days, 6 hours

Men’s foot — Tom Jarding in 2010: twenty days fourteen hours, 45 minutes

Men’s bike — Carl Hutchings in 2005: twenty-two days, 47 minutes

Men’s foot — Tim Hewitt in 2009: twenty-five days, 9 hours, twenty-nine minutes