Four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race winner Dallas Seavey has been training for the race practically his entire life. His grandfather, Dan Seavey, is a veteran Iditarod musher who competed in the first Iditarod race in 1973 and three other races after that. Dallas’ father, Mitch Seavey, is a long-time competitor and took first place both in 2004, 2013, and 2017. Dallas is the youngest musher to ever win the Iditarod, and is the current record holder for finishing the 975-mile race in 8 days, 13 hours, 4 minutes and 19 seconds. He was born March 4, 1987 in Lorton, Virginia, but has no recollection of living anywhere but Alaska. The majority of his childhood was spent in the family’s dog kennel just off of Exit Glacier Road in Seward. Today, Dallas homesteads and operates his dog kennel in Willow, about an hour’s drive north of Anchorage, but he still considers Seward to be his home.