Iditarod 2015 – Day 4

Zoya DeNure and her team of rescues, rejects, and runts have scratched at Tanana. None of the dogs had been dropped, and they had a solid run into Tanana, so I’ll make a wild guess that Zoya may have been injured moving through the trees. [They finally said ‘personal reasons’.]

Lance Mackey, Jason Mackey, and Rick Cosillo took the 24-hour break at Tanana, which dropped them to the back, but will move up as everyone else takes theirs. Lance is having issues due the poor circulation in his hands and the cold temperatures.

Aaron has his eye on the half-way money at Huslia, and blew through Galena.

Gwenn Bogart scratched at Tanana for ‘personal reasons’.

Beyond Galena
1 Aaron Burmeister (63)
2 Dallas Seavey (46)
3 Martin Buser (4)
4 Thomas Waerner (8)^R
5 Hugh Neff (24)
6 Curt Perano (21)
7 Ken Anderson (36)
At Galena
8 Jeff King (59)
9 Aliy Zirkle (32)
10 Jessie Royer (3)
11 Wade Marrs (65)
12 Michelle Phillips (6)
13 Joar Leifseth Ulsom (16)
14 Nathan Schroeder (26)
15 Peter Kaiser (54)

16 Paul Gebhardt (28)
17 Jason Campeau (70)^Q
18 Nicolas Petit (12)
19 Mats Pettersson (55)
20 DeeDee Jonrowe (29)
21 Justin Savidis (19)
22 Richie Diehl (42)
23 Ray Redington Jr (34)
24 Travis Beals (56)
25 Paige Drobny (58)
26 Jodi Bailey (22)
27 Christian Turner (73)
28 Anna Berington (39)
29 Kristy Berington (11)
30 Bryan Bearss (48)

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.

This post will be updated during the day, and the map changed on all posts to reflect the current situation.

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