Jeff King is into Kalskag. He has one hour remaining on his 6 hour mandatory layover. Pete is about 15 minutes out of Kalskag.
Here’s what’s going on.
Pete may or may not snack his Team. If he does, he will be on Race Time as opposed to layover time, which is effectively off the clock.
So what this means is that every minute that Pete stays in Kalskag, Jeff King gains on him.
There will be a bunch of Teams headed into Kalskag and the “fly in the buttermilk” to quote an old saying is that Joar Ulsom’s tracker isn’t working so we have no idea where he is!!!
It’s going to be ultra exciting tonight as Teams head for Tuluksak.
I’m expecting short breaks for most of the Teams to take advantage of hot water that they won’t have to make on the trail. It is 85 or so miles from Aniak to Tuluksak and this run has been made many times without a break. So there’s that as well.
Welcome to the Race folks!! From here to the finish it is truly going to be exciting.
I’m starting to make a few predictions on Finish Time.
Last year Pete made the run into the Finish, including the 4 hour mandatory layover in Tuluksak in around 13 hours. Pete arrived into Bethel at 7:17am after leaving Kalskag at 6:08. At the time of this post, it is almost 7pm. That puts us into Bethel after 8:30 in my prediction tomorrow morning.
The one Team I am really looking at is Richie Diehl. His speeds have been just a bit faster when looking at the Raceflow feature in the Tracker.
Mr. Rearden checked my stats and found that I had left out Joar Ulsom in my calculations and we all need to remember him as well. If he has no tracker, we won’t know anything… Super bummer! And Joar has a good fast Team as well that left only 13 minutes behind Pete.
It’s going to be exciting!
Stay tuned! Go Team Kaiser!
