Racing to the Yukon Book

Racing to the Yukon is much more than the tale of Rod Price’s adventure of entering the Yukon 1000, also known as the World’s Longest Canoe Race. Racing to the Yukon is a much longer story. It is a fun exploration of how Rod Price, fifty year old copy paper and ink cartridge seller managed to rekindle his young adult love of racing canoes. Rod travels throughout the world in a kind of “Have Paddle will Travel” fashion in some of the world’s most harsh albeit comical locations. And more importantly he does most of this after hitting the age of forty. Racing to the Yukon begins with Rod Price’s revelation that he isn’t as young as he used to be, when he attempts a simple 12 mile canoe race at the age of forty. Ten years before Rod would have chewed up his competition in this kind of a race and suddenly he is working hard just to finish the race in last place. While driving home from that race Rod decides that he is too young at forty to be beaten, even if the other racers are far younger. Rod sets out to refind his racing form. This goal becomes a ten year exploration of heart and body as Rod fails often but occasionally triumphs. Eventually Rod is back in the best Canoe Racing shape of his life. But not before many lighthearted and inspirational challenges are met.