Iditarod 2013 – Day 10
Aliy lost the Yukon Quest 300 by 8 seconds this year, I don’t think she’s in the mood for another second place. She picked up over a half hour on Mitch in the run to White Mountain so her puppies are ready for the final run.
There is an 8-hour mandatory stop so they can’t leave until after 1PM local, and then about 75 miles to Nome, around 12 hours at a minimum. The winner will cross the line early tomorrow morning AKDT.
Update: Jason Mackey (12) and Rudy Demonski Sr (39) both scratched at Unalakleet. Jason wasn’t feeling at all well, and Rudy had the same thought about the 9 puppies still in harness. Warm wet weather isn’t good for man or dog.
I see that Jan Steves (26) is currently in last place. I really doubt she wants another Red Lantern. Update: She scratched at Eagle Island. Her team lost its will to race; they weren’t happy puppies anymore.
Update: Robert Bundtzen (23) scratched at Shaktoolik. He didn’t think his puppies were having fun on the trail as they weren’t acting normally.
Beyond Safety
1 Mitch Seavey (36)
2 Aliy Zirkle (27) +00:25:00
Beyond White Mountain
3 Jeff King (18) +01:41:00
4 Dallas Seavey (19) +02:59:00
5 Ray Redington Jr (52) +03:02:00
6 Joar Leifseth Ulson (32)R +04:06:00
7 Nicolas Petit (16)
8 Jake Berkowitz (44)
9 Aaron Burmeister (24)
10 Sonny Lindner (67)
11 DeeDee Jonrowe (28)
At White Mountain
12 Ken Anderson (6)
13 Peter Kaiser (10)
14 Josh Cadzow (55)Q
15 Paul Gebhardt (11)
16 Martin Buser (2)
17 Cim Smyth (51)
18 Jessie Royer (30)
19 Lance Mackey (5)
20 Brent Sass (62)
21 John Baker (13)
22 Ramey Smyth (38)
Beyond Elim
23 Michelle Phillips (7)
24 Michael Williams Jr (46)
At Elim
25 Jessica Hendricks (54)
26 Kelley Griffin (9)
Beyond Koyuk
27 Curt Perano (45)
28 Matt Failor (61)
29 Kelly Maixner (25)
30 Linwood Fiedler (42)
At Koyuk
31 Allen Moore (48)
32 Wade Marrs (57)
33 Jim Lanier (59)
34 Justin Savidis (34)
35 Karin Hendrickson (29)
36 Paige Drobny (14)Q
37 Mike Ellis (50)
38 Aaron Peck (58)
Beyond Shaktoolik
39 Richie Diehl (65)R
40 Matt Giblin (64)
41 Kristy Berington (20)
42 Anna Berington (31)
43 Jodi Bailey (4)
44 Travis Beals (22)R
Beyond Unalakleet
45 Mike Williams Sr (35)
46 Gerald Sousa (49)
At Unalakleet
47 Angie Taggart (40)
Beyond Kaltag
48 Charley Bejna (15)R
49 Luan Ramos Marques (47)R
50 Louie Ambrose (53)R
51 Cindy Gallea (17)
52 Mikhail Telpin (63)Q
Beyond Eagle Island
53 Christine Roalofs (37)R
54 James Volek (66)R
55 Cindy Abbott (60)R>
56 Bob Chlupach (43)Φ
The Mushers in bold are former winners of the Iditarod, while italics indicates Yukon Quest winners. The numbers in parentheses are their Bib numbers. The small “R” indicates a total rookie, while the small “Q” indicates an Iditarod rookie who has completed a Yukon Quest.
These are the official standings. That means they are official, not that they are correct. Things jump around a lot as people decide to update the standings. This problem is especially bad in the back of the pack, as no one bothers to update those standings when the lead is changing.
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4 comments
ok, i’ve been reading your iditarod and yukon quest post for a few years now [thank you!] and i have yet to see even one tiny hint as to how to pronounce some of these names… i’ve got nome, and willow, and even iditarod down pat, but unala-kuh-whositz?
You mean Una-la-kleet, which is the English version. You are going through multiple languages as you head to Nome. Notice the TNA on the end of village names in the South that disappears in the North. Different languages yield different name forms.
John Baker would use the Inupiaq version, Josh Cadzow, the Athabascan, and Mike Williams Sr would go with the Yupik pronunciation, which is most correct for Unalakleet, but doesn’t transcribe into English because of the lack of certain sounds.
As a rule of thumb, if you aren’t fluent in the language, approximate the sound from the letters you see and the locals will figure it out.
There is the town of Chili up near Rochester, New York. The name is properly pronounced with two long I’s: Chi-li. No one seems to know why, but that’s the way it is.
Hipparchia, you are so right! They would probably be appalled at the way I pronounce their names in my head. Hey, it works for me. I’ve lived most of my life in Virginia and North Carolina, and we try to name as many towns as possible with the name of Lexington, apparently.
Still, Bryan, we have a couple of doozies. In Virginia, we have one county by the name of Botetourt which is pronounced loosely as Botta-tott County. I once said “No way” to a local there and they firmly pointed out that it was indeed Botta-tott named after Lord Botta-tott, no less!!! Well, alrighty then…
In North Carolina, we have a town named Fuquay-Varina. No lie, with the dash and everything.
My Mother’s hometown and the place I finished high school is the village of Oriskany in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York. Oriska is the Oneida [Iroquois] name for a nettle that grows in the area. I suspect that the original application for village status gave the name as Oriska, N.Y., which became Oriskany due to the semi-literacy of many clerks in the early 19th century. [punctuation was optional for a very long time, and spelling was not considered important].
I’m convinced that a major portion of the land features in the US are the generic name of the feature in the local language, i.e. rivers are named ‘river’ in the local language, mountains are named ‘mountain’, etc. I can hear the dialogue: Euro explorer to local – “what do you call this river?” Response: “We call it a river.”