Sunday, March 9, 2008

Alaska Iditarod 2008 Day 8

I apologize for the late info. I thought I had posted this but apparently I didn't. The update for today will soon follow.




Top 10 Mushers so far:

Place Musher (bib) Checkpoint Time in Time out Dogs in Dogs out 8 hr 24 hr
1 Lance Mackey (6) Unalakleet 3/09 3:32 PM 3/09 6:17 PM 14 12 x x
2 Jeff King (11) Unalakleet 3/09 2:02 PM 3/09 7:01 PM 16 16 x x
3 Paul Gebhardt (69) Kaltag 3/09 5:39 AM 3/09 5:50 AM 12 12 x x
4 Ramey Smyth (48) Kaltag 3/09 9:11 AM 3/09 9:20 AM 12 12 x x
5 Zack Steer (26) Kaltag 3/09 9:30 AM 3/09 9:36 AM 12 12 x x
6 Sebastian Schnuelle (68) Kaltag 3/09 10:12 AM 3/09 10:20 AM 15 15 x x
7 Kjetil Backen (42) Kaltag 3/09 4:12 AM 3/09 10:21 AM 14 13 x x
8 Hans Gatt (38) Kaltag 3/09 4:10 AM 3/09 10:22 AM 12 12 x x
9 Gerry Willomitzer (7) Kaltag 3/09 10:34 AM 3/09 10:43 AM 13 13 x x
10 Jessie Royer (3) Kaltag 3/09 7:40 AM 3/09 11:40 AM 12 12 x x

This race is getting so exciting. Jeff King and Lance Mackey are certainly fighting it out. King was first into Unalakleet but Mackey was first out. Mackey is down to 12 dogs where King has all 16. King is probably the faster team and since he left less than 45 minutes behind Mackey they are probably neck and neck. They are about 200 miles from Nome. On to Shaktoolik for the leaders. Martin Buser, Rick Swenson, Jim Lanier, and DeeDee Jonrowe are all fighting to get back in to the top 10. There is still a lot of race left. They have around 250 miles left.


Iditarod sled dog musher DeeDee Jonrowe feeds her team the Galena checkpoint on Saturday March 8, 2008.


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