Comments on: Iditarod 2013 – Day 11

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:55:46 +0000

Aliy is going to be fit to be tie for a year. Since Allen won the Quest this year, I can see Aliy putting all of their resource behind her next Iditarod.

Mitch won the same way John Baker won a few years back – consistency. His team maintained a steady, consistent pace. Aliy moved too early, and couldn’t sustain it. Based on interviews after she got to Nome, I think she may have the flu as soon as she slows down enough to notice. She was perfectly placed coming out of White Mountain, but didn’t have enough left to close the deal. She thought she was closer to Mitch than she actually was, and may have even fallen asleep for a while on the run.

Yeah, Badtux, it was looking bad on the Yukon, and I was concerned about the people who live there. Too many have become too dependent on the snowmobiles, and if the ice won’t support them, and the river isn’t clear enough for boats, they are stuck. There are no roads, so everything would have to be flown in which really jacks up prices.

As for Carroll, she has been a disaster in the making from day one, and she was working for the king of Medicare/Medicaid fraud, so it’s not surprising. There are almost no real veterans’ charities. Every one I have researched for my Mother has come up smelling like a sewer. The only ones I have seen that are doing anything useful are purely local.

You elect Republicans, you have to expect corruption. It is part of running ‘government like a business’, for a given meaning of ‘business’.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:59:39 +0000

Congrats to Mitch, definitely. I was starting to worry there for a couple of days that it would turn into a boating contest rather than a sledding contest. Luckily it turned cold again.

In other news, Floriduh’s Lt. Governor resigns after the FBI arrests dozens in a corruption probe involving a phony veterans’ charity. Tends to indicate that she’s going to be in the next batch to do the perp walk :twisted:. What, corruption in Florida? Really? 🙂

By: JuanitaM

JuanitaM — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:19:26 +0000

Congratulations to Mitch! What a great run for him.

Such a shame for Aliy, though, to finish just barely behind the winner for two years in a row! Ah well, maybe next year.

As of now, I see twelve are now in to Nome. I notice Martin Buser is in 17th place. He sure had a great run in the beginning, and I was beginning to wonder if he might not pull it off, but it wasn’t to be this year.

There are still a couple of people that have just left Eagle Island, so there’s still a while left to go before everyone is in. Looking at your weather widgets, it looks like Kaltag is cold (15 degrees now) and clear, so maybe it will be good sledding for the rest coming in.