My Siberian's idea of morning exercise was a 20 mile top speed run across the frozen sound at 20 below. And me cruising along on a snow machine. Some days I'd hook her up and we'd skijor for an hour. When I went to California on vacation I was shocked to see a woman walking a Siberian husky around the block for exercise. 80 degrees! To me that's where the abuse is. But the anti-Iditarod people have their minds made up. It's really more about them establishing their dominance over people they feel are inferior to themselves. The urban cosmopolitan's hatred of rural people.