The Deye family livingroom is strewn with medals and photos from the races Jenny's won. Despite her success, Jenny says it's taken six years of hard work to get to this point. She and her mom spend hours tracking the dogs training and health needs. And everyone in the family has had to weigh the costs of supporting Jenny's dream. Yeah, it's an expense, keeping a lot of dogs.
People wind up moving out into the country, getting big pieces of land.
It does change your lifestyle. Jenny's Minnesota training has ended and she is now in Alaska working with veteran mushers to train for the Junior Iditarod. The full Iditarod spans 1161 miles from Anchorage to Nome. Jenny will get a fair test of the run racing the first 160 miles of the Iditarod in the junior competition. Iditarod Director Joanne Potts says even for veteran racers, mushing in Alaska is nothing like racing in the lower 48.