The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual 1,150-mile dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome The race's top prize is $610,000 this year. The Iditarod's official website describe the race which takes ten to fifteen days. You can't compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race over 1150 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the musher