Iditarod 2015 – Day 5

Aaron was first in to Huslia, but he needs to take both the 8 and 24 hour stops. It looks like Aliy is taking her 24-hour and will save the 8-hour for later. Jeff King is the only musher in the top 10 who has taken both.

As usual the Berington twins are running together. Anna had to hustle to catch Kristy and will take a decent lead over her at the 24-hour because of the start differential.

At Huslia
1 Aaron Burmeister (63)
2 Dallas Seavey (46)
3 Thomas Waerner (8)^R
4 Ken Anderson (36)
5 Martin Buser (4)
6 Hugh Neff (24)
7 Curt Perano (21)
8 DeeDee Jonrowe (29)
9 Jodi Bailey (22)
Beyond Galena
10 Jeff King (59)
11 Mitch Seavey (18)
12 Aliy Zirkle (32)
13 Wade Marrs (65)
14 John Baker (78)
15 Jessie Royer (3)
16 Peter Kaiser (54)
17 Jason Campeau (70)^Q
18 Nathan Schroeder (26)
19 Kelly Maixner (9)
20 Joar Leifseth Ulsom (16)
21 Michelle Phillips (6)
22 Lance Mackey (30)
23 Jason Mackey (72)

At Galena
24 Paul Gebhardt (28)
25 Nicolas Petit (12)
26 Mats Pettersson (55)
27 Justin Savidis (19)
28 Richie Diehl (42)
29 Ray Redington Jr (34)
30 Travis Beals (56)

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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