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Bert from Belgium writes…
Good morning for you ! you are probably sleeping now as I am writing from across the globe. (Belgium) Or do you also (as in the race) don’t get much sleep these days ! Great coverage again!
I have a question, what’s your opinion on Mitch Seavy’s all male team? On his pre-race video he told he thinks this 2010 team is his best team ever. All big strong males.
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This useful article gives the actual times mushers must stay when taking their “24-hour” layovers. Times are adjusted at this time to compensate for the staggered start at two minute intervals. This is also a good source of race info in general.
24-hour Layover Rest times | Iditablog.com – Iditarod 2010 News and Coverage
(This post is a short diversion from race coverage to help readers get better race coverage.)
A lot has changed in the technology used by the media to cover Iditarod since I started getting sent up the trail to cover the race in 2004. Take Twitter, for example.
I signed up for Twitter several months ago, and the thing mystified me. It seemed like e-mail, only I was forced to write 140 characters or less. What was all the buzz about? The answer best lies in what Alaska Public Radio Network is doing with Twitter up the trail.
… the back of the pack has its own struggles. This story is not anything I would wish on anyone, and I’m actually surprised it doesn’t happen more often. Sounds like he is going to be OK…
Musher Moon injured, flown to Anchorage for treatment: 2010 Iditarod 38 | adn.com
Jeff King seized the lead and showed his team has the speed to build on it as he led John Baker, Mitch Seavey and Sebastian Schnuelle out of Nikolai and outpaced them to claim the PenAir Spirit of Alaska Award in McGrath.
Craig Medred, former Anchorage Daily News outdoors writer, is following the back of the pack via snowmachine this year for something called Alaska Dispatch. I’m new to this electronic newspaper, but impressed that they have Medred and another reporter on the trail this year. Here’s a link to Medred’s article on an unfortunate decision to scratch by Karin Hendrickson…
Broken sled, broken dreams for one Iditarod musher
I liked the looks of her team at Knik 200 and gave her an encouraging word at the time. They were very steady, and looked like they could trot forever.
Mitch Seavey made up more than an hour over Sebastian Schnuelle as they both ran the roughly 75 miles from Rohn to Nikolai in one jump. Seavey arrived 45 minutes behind Schnuelle, who pulled at 9:47 a.m. into the first village mushers have seen since the starting line in Willow. Schnuelle made the run in just over 10 hours, to Seavey’s run time of 9 hours.
And then there was Jeff King, making the run in 8 and a half hours.
Paul Gebhardt has been saying for the last few years, that he’s not getting any younger and he really wants to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. His actions are living up to his words. The 53-year-old from Kasilof, Alaska, led the field into the always-risky buffalo tunnels outside Rohn on Monday night.
