Good Morning Race Fans! It’s a cold one on the river this morning! Manley Hot Springs, the next checkpoint in the 2017 Iditarod is reporting a chilly -31 degrees this morning. While we experienced the chill for a single morning, this is life for Mushers and Teams competing in the race.
Speaking of competition, Team Kaiser is running near the top this morning and we are beginning to see strategies play out throughout the top Teams. Yesterday we saw Pete take his break before Nenana while other Teams just moved in and rested in that checkpoint. A stickler for strategy, Mr. Kaiser is showing to have a plan in place for this first part of the race.
This morning has Team Kaiser resting 9 miles out of Manley. Martin Buser is doing his traditional long run/short rest schedule and has him first into Manley, but looking at the Tracker replay shows Pete and the Team to have been running in second position behind Buser until it was time for Pete’s break. Looking at the analytics below shows the difference in the run rest strategies of these two mushers as well as Mitch Seavey, who has a completely different run/rest schedule.
Pete and the Team are doing great and the excitement is already building just one day into the race! Martin Buser has many times been the jack rabbit at the start, but hasn’t been able to quite put it together later. We will see how this plays out, but I am thinking it is a battle right from the Start of these two strategies and possibly a battle of Kaiser/Seavey at this point.
Stay Tuned!!
Go Team Kaiser!
