Good Morning Race Fans – Koyuk in Sight

Good Morning Race Fans! After a Sunday that seemed non-stop, who knows what today will bring!

Pete and the Team are now 7 miles out of Koyuk. They left Shaktoolik after an almost 3 hour break at 1:47am this morning, he had to drop 2 dogs at the checkpoint, so he is now running with 11. That pretty much seems to be the norm as most mushers are running 10-12 dogs at this point in the lead group.

Mitch Seavey left 90 minutes before, but Pete has pulled up and is about a mile behind him. Positions have moved around a bit during the night as Ray Redington Jr., who had been trailing Pete by about 40 minutes, took a longer break and is now quite a ways back. Ramey Smyth took much less rest and seems to be the fast team at this hour.

The fastest time so far from Shaktoolik to Koyuk is Aliy Zirkle at 7 hours and 38 minutes, but I suspect both Pete and Ramey will best that time.

Pete seems to be poised to move up one position into 5th as he moves up on Mitch Seavey, but we have quite a ways to go.

Today is probably going to shape up like this:

Arrive in Koyuk and take a layover. In fact I might suspect that teams would take a long enough layover to push onto White Mountain where a mandatory 8 hour layover awaits. Of course, at this point in the race, each musher is watching the other and no one will let anyone get too far away. So if one musher moves early to do short layovers up to White Mountain, all of them probably will.

In any case, by this evening we will really be seeing the end of the race in sight and what an exciting ending it is shaping up to be.

Stay Tuned! Go Team Kaiser!

Weather this morning:

Koyuk at this Hour: -9 and Winds are Calm.

Forecast is for Temperatures around 3 above and North winds to 10 miles per hour.

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