[older news item, but we (BIKEIOWA) wanted this epic moment listed in our news archives]
Steve Cannon takes adventure seriously.
The Iowa native has almost 100 marathons under his belt, along with 20 RAGBRAIs andthe world's longest kayak race. He was also the second person to run across Iowa in 11 days and the first person to run around Lake Michigan.
Soon, the 52-year-old author and adventurerhopes to be the first Iowan to complete a 1,000-mile race across Alaska on a fat bike. It'sa task only 39 peoplehave ever accomplished, he said.
[UPDATE - as of Wed, March 13th 9:00pm, Steve was at mile 717.6 out of 1000 !]