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2013 rookie Iditarod musher Cindy
Abbott of Irvine, California scratched in
Kaltag at 23:00 on 3/13. Abbott made the
decision to scratch due to a muscle strain
and the best interest of her team.
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Cindy Abbott, 54, was born and raised in
Nebraska. After graduation from California State
University, Fullerton, with a Master’s Degree
in Kinesiology in 1996, she became a professor
there. She currently lives with her husband Larry
and daughter Teshia in Irvine, California, where
she teaches Health Science at California State
University, Fullerton. Cindy has always been drawn
to the world of extreme sports. Already an extreme
scuba diver and underwater videographer, in 2007,
at the age of 48, she took up mountain climbing
with the single goal of standing on the top of the
world. A few months after she began training, Cindy
was diagnosed with a serious and rare disease
(Wegner’s Granulomatosis), but she was
determined to achieve her dream and on May 23,
2010, after 54 days of working her way up the
mountain, Cindy stepped onto the summit of Mt.
Everest.
Cindy learned about the Iditarod in the early
1990’s, while taking an Environmental Exercise
Physiology course. But it wasn’t until 2004,
that she came to Alaska and took her first ride on
a dog sled. In 2011, she began working under the
guidance of Iditarod champion, Lance Mackey, at his
Comeback Kennel. She immediately fell in love with
the sport, the Alaskan people and culture, but most
of all, she fell in love with the world’s most
amazing athletes – the dogs!
In 2012, when Cindy crossed the finish line of
the YQ300, the race marshal asked her what she
thought, and she replied, “That was the most
amazing thing I have ever experienced!” With
some mid-distance races under her belt, Cindy
admits that, for her, racing sled dogs is more
difficult than climbing Mt. Everest—something
she never thought that she would say.
Since her diagnosis, Cindy has become a very
active rare disease awareness advocate for the
National Organization of Rare Disorders and the
Vasculitis Foundation. She lists her hobbies as
mountain climbing, SCUBA diving, and international
travel.
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