{"id":31801,"date":"2016-02-16T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fairbanks-man-runs-yukon-quest-sled-dog-race-on-his-bicycle\/"},"modified":"2016-02-16T22:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:30:41","slug":"fairbanks-man-runs-yukon-quest-sled-dog-race-on-his-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fairbanks-man-runs-yukon-quest-sled-dog-race-on-his-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbanks man runs Yukon Quest sled dog race on his bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WHITEHORSE<\/strong> \u2014 He\u2019s not an official part of the 33rd annual Yukon Quest sled dog race, but a bicyclist has set a new record along the frigid and exhausting course between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon.<\/p>\n<p>Fairbanks resident Jeff Oatley has completed the 1,600-kilometre race on his fat bike, a specialized bicycle with up to 12-centimetre wide tires, allowing it to float across soft surfaces such as snow.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehorse radio station CKRW reported Oatley pedalled the exact course followed by the dog teams and crossed the finish line in Whitehorse on Monday afternoon, just behind the second-place musher.<\/p>\n<p>Oatley set out a week before the Yukon Quest began, taking 16 days on the trail, compared to the nine days musher Hugh Neff and his dog team needed to win the 2016 race.<\/p>\n<p>Oatley\u2019s most dangerous situation likely occurred in Dawson City when Canada Border Services officials threatened to deport him for incorrect paperwork, but eventually allowed him to cycle on.<\/p>\n<p>He said isolation on the trail was also a challenge and he never plans to do the Yukon Quest again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHITEHORSE \u2014 He\u2019s not an official part of the 33rd annual Yukon Quest sled dog race, but a bicyclist has set a new record along the frigid and exhausting course between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon. Fairbanks resident Jeff Oatley has completed the 1,600-kilometre race on his fat bike, a specialized bicycle with up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31801"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}