Jeff started mushing when he was 15 years old, and spent all of his teenage years focused only on running the Iditarod in 2008. He didn’t think about much else, or think about what he wanted to do with the whole rest of his life after Iditarod. In 2008 he completed the Iditarod at age 19. He was very happy with my accomplishment, but running the Iditarod is VERY expensive. As a teenager Jeff’s parents helped him with a lot of the expenses, but as Jeff’s 20th birthday was approaching he knew he had to figure out how to pay for all of the Iditarods in the future, and also think really hard about if that was how he wanted to spend all his time and money. So between 2008 and 2018 Jeff did some traveling, and he went to college for a little while, and he mostly did a lot of thinking. He also met KattiJo in 2010 and she really encouraged him to follow his dreams and get back into racing if that was what he really wanted to do. Training sled dogs takes a lot of time and patience (and yes, money!) so it was really important for Jeff to find a partner like KattiJo who wanted to help and have sled dogs, too. Now we love training the dogs together.