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Anna Berington
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Seeing Double Sled Dog Racing
is home to Kristy and Anna Berington, identical twins from Knik, Alaska. Although best known for annual appearances in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, these inspirational adventure-seeking women have shown up on everything from the cover of Runners World Magazine to an episode of the Try Guys to a feature in Vogue. |
Kristy Berington
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About the Twins:
Kristy and Anna were born within 5 minutes of each other in early 1984. Raised in a small town in northern Wisconsin, they first got involved in sprint-distance sled dog racing at a young age.
After graduating from high school, they served in the Wisconsin Army National Guard before setting their sights on a life centered around raising, training, and racing sled dogs.
A search for work in this field initially took them to California where they spent winters working at a dog sled touring business in Lake Tahoe and summers at a horse stable guiding tourists in the Sierra Nevada mountains. But something was missing.
After graduating from high school, they served in the Wisconsin Army National Guard before setting their sights on a life centered around raising, training, and racing sled dogs.
A search for work in this field initially took them to California where they spent winters working at a dog sled touring business in Lake Tahoe and summers at a horse stable guiding tourists in the Sierra Nevada mountains. But something was missing.
Seeing Double's Acreage. Photo by Finn-Erik Rognan (used with permission).
Alaska becomes home.
The summer of 2007 gave Kristy the opportunity to make a quick trip to Alaska's Kenai peninsula, where she had the good fortune of meeting 1984 Iditarod winner Dean Osmar. It didn't take long for Dean to convince the twins to move to Alaska to try a different caliber of sled dog racing. In early 2008, the twins made their first appearances in the Alaskan sled dog racing circuit.
Kristy's first race was the Knik 200 followed by the Tustumena 100 (where she placed 2nd by a matter of minutes). Anna's first race was the Klondike 300 followed by numerous mid-distance races, eventually placing 8th in the Taiga 300. It was a long, hard winter, but by the time the snow melted in the spring of 2008, Kristy and Anna were sure of one thing - Alaska was where they were going to live and run dogs.
The Super Bowl of the competitive sled dog racing world is the Iditarod. This thousand mile ultra marathon by dog sled is held in March of each year and takes a musher and her dog team through some of the most beautiful and rugged terrain Alaska has to offer. Kristy began racing Iditarod in 2010. After recovering from some injuries, Anna made her first appearance on the Iditarod trail in 2012.
After working with a number of veteran mushers, Anna and Kristy officially established Seeing Double Sled Dog Racing as a stand-alone kennel located in Knik, Alaska. They have their own fur-family with over 40 Alaskan Huskies ranging from puppies to Iditarod racers to a few retirees. Kristy and Anna tie their own ganglines, groom trails, and manage all that goes with caring for and training their dogs.
The twins are professional mushers. To supplement this when there's no snow, Kristy and Anna work a variety of landscaping and construction jobs. But even with their hard work, they couldn't do it all without the dedicated support of sponsors, family and friends, including Kristy's husband Andy Pohl, fellow mushers, and all of their fans!
Kristy's first race was the Knik 200 followed by the Tustumena 100 (where she placed 2nd by a matter of minutes). Anna's first race was the Klondike 300 followed by numerous mid-distance races, eventually placing 8th in the Taiga 300. It was a long, hard winter, but by the time the snow melted in the spring of 2008, Kristy and Anna were sure of one thing - Alaska was where they were going to live and run dogs.
The Super Bowl of the competitive sled dog racing world is the Iditarod. This thousand mile ultra marathon by dog sled is held in March of each year and takes a musher and her dog team through some of the most beautiful and rugged terrain Alaska has to offer. Kristy began racing Iditarod in 2010. After recovering from some injuries, Anna made her first appearance on the Iditarod trail in 2012.
After working with a number of veteran mushers, Anna and Kristy officially established Seeing Double Sled Dog Racing as a stand-alone kennel located in Knik, Alaska. They have their own fur-family with over 40 Alaskan Huskies ranging from puppies to Iditarod racers to a few retirees. Kristy and Anna tie their own ganglines, groom trails, and manage all that goes with caring for and training their dogs.
The twins are professional mushers. To supplement this when there's no snow, Kristy and Anna work a variety of landscaping and construction jobs. But even with their hard work, they couldn't do it all without the dedicated support of sponsors, family and friends, including Kristy's husband Andy Pohl, fellow mushers, and all of their fans!
Anna & Kristy, photo by Albert Marquez (used with permission).
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Kristy & husband Andy out on the 2018 Iditarod Trail.
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The twins are featured in hometown publication The South Shore Connection in March 1998.
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Anna & Kristy during their time in the Wisconsin Army National Guard.
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