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K300 Race Nominated For Alaska Sports Hall Of Fame
The Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race was born in Myron Angstman’s living room in 1979, almost 40 years ago. If there’s one word that can describe the sled dog race, it’s scrappy.
"We don’t take no for answer when putting on the race," Angstman said. "There’s many, many reasons where it would have been really easy to not have the race for weather reasons, logistics reasons."
Angstman is the chairman of the K300 Race Committee, which offers its three signature races in January: The Kuskokwim 300 (or K300), the Bogus Creek 150, and the Akiak Dash. The K300 Committee announced that it raised its purse by $10,000 per race for the fifth time in seven years.
The K300 is the biggest race, running from Bethel to Aniak and back. Angstman says that he heard of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame about a decade ago, but he didn’t think the K300 had a chance at getting in at first.
"So we never did or said much about the hall of fame because we figured our chances were too limited being where we are [in Rural Alaska]," Angstman said. "But then as we watched over the years, there were other events that were nominated or selected that, you know, was certainly no more deserving than the Kuskokwim 300."
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