Iditarod 2013 – Day 5
Lance picked up the Halfway gold pulling into Iditarod first, but he is going to be stopped when Martin comes through. Aaron is his closest challenger more than 5 hours behind. The Joker in the deck is where everyone is when the warm front moves in – that will change everything.
Update: David Sawatzky (56) scratched at McGrath. He finished his 24-hour stop at Nikolai but his puppies didn’t seem happy making the run to McGrath. Actually, the ‘tell’ is how well the dogs eat on the trail. If their eating patterns change, there is something wrong.
Update: Newton Marshall (8) of the Jamaican Dog Sled Team has had to scratch at Nikolai. One of the puppies, May, got loose, and hasn’t been found in more than a day. All dogs have to be accounted for to continue a race, and the effort has shifted to locating May, rather than running a race. Newton seriously loves dogs and works with them in Jamaica, so he would be looking for May even if it wasn’t part of the rules.
Note: at 7:30PM local time it was 42°F in McGrath and 49°F here on the Gulf Coast!
Beyond Iditarod
1 Martin Buser (2)
2 Aliy Zirkle (27)
3 Aaron Burmeister (24)
4 Mitch Seavey (36)
At Iditarod
5 Lance Mackey (5)
6 Sonny Lindner (67)
7 Jeff King (18)
8 Jason Mackey (12)
9 Jake Berkowitz (44)
10 Jim Lanier (59)
11 Nicolas Petit (16)
12 Joar Leifseth Ulson (32)R
13 Ray Redington Jr (52)
14 Paul Gebhardt (11)
15 Jessie Royer (30)
16 DeeDee Jonrowe (28)
17 Dallas Seavey (19)
18 John Baker (13) [Read more →]
March 7, 2013 5 Comments
