Rick Swenson ran his first Iditarod in 1977 and he is still going at it!!
Top 20 Finish AGAIN!
Rick Swenson – FINISH- 9 Days 22 Hours 53 Minutes 22 Seconds DOGS- 12
Way to go! Nice Job!
Mike Jr. is off to Nome! GPS shows him out of White Mountain for Safety and Nome. Go Mike Go!
To those of you of Irish Descent, Or anyone that claims such:
County Down Northern Ireland for Me!
Hans Gatt 2nd Place
Man- I never thought it would happen so fast!
I was rushing home, but alas, not in time!!
Lance Mackey- First Four Time in a Row Winner NOME- IN-14:59 DOGS-11
2nd Fastest Time on Record 8 Days 23 Hrs 59 minutes 9 Seconds
For winning the Iditarod, Lance Mackey gets a new Dodge truck and $50,400.
Congratulations to a Great Champion!
No Photos from the Finish, but let’s look at last years Winning Photo:
Set your DVR’s or keep your ears on the news. Sounds like Mackey will be in Nome today in the afternoon.
Lance Mackey took an Exactly 8 hour layover and was on the move at 4:43am this morning. Yesterday he made the run from Elim to White Mountain at an average speed of close to 7mph. This run is a 77 mile run, but probably a snack in the middle or so. I am predicting (As if I know anything) him to be in Nome between 4 and 5:30. But a safer bet with this guy would be between 3 and 5. Those dogs know when it’s almost over!! In fact they are blazing along at over 9mph right now so stay tuned!
Mackey is into White Mountain and into his mandatory 8 hour layover. He is about 2 1/2 hours in front of the second place musher and Yukon Quest winner Hans Gatt, from Whitehorse. The roles are reversed as Gatt is following Mackey into Nome. Mackey followed Gatt across the Yukon Quest finish line.
Sebastian Schnuelle and Mackey had a “hair” bet with the loser also losing his hair. Say bye bye to your hair Sebastian! And that is some Hair!
Sebastian Schnuelle
2010 Excitement
[I’m not sure what’s going on, but now the Iditarod website doesn’t have Mackey into Shaktoolik on the Leaderboard, but on Mackey’s page it does show him in and out]
Mackey- Shaktoolik – IN- 16:08 OUT- 19:00 DOGS- 12 Time- 6:20 (From UNK)
King- Shaktoolik- IN- 16:45 DOGS- 13 Time- 6:29 (From UNK)
Like Ali and Frasier, these two mushers at the front of the 2010 Iditarod are duking it out like Boxers in an All or Nothing Match. Mackey arrived in Shaktoolik 37 minutes before King. He gained a whole NINE minutes on the stretch which is a virtual tie. Someone’s got to blink, but both of these guys are locked in an epic battle. This has the makings of one of the great dueling matches of all time. Sure glad I’m here to watch it!
King and Mackey are battling it out towards Shaktoolik. Mackey took no rest and went straight to Unalakleet last night with King arriving 3 hours behind him. This morning Mackey left first with 6 hours rest and King is now out 45 minutes after him with 3 hours rest. Their times from Kaltag to Unalakleet were virtually dead even. Mackey is 4 miles in front of King at this point.
What a race!! It never seems to end with those two!!
Neither the Tracker or Standings show Pete as out yet.
Cams page has been updated to show the Unalakleet Steerable Camera at the checkpoint. Check it out!
Check out the Kaiser Super Dogs in Mushing Magazine!
