I hate to do this to you…. but with King and Seavey getting into Cape Nome just a little bit ago (still minutes apart) I’ve got to get down to front street for the live KICY broadcast.
The good news is: Its being recorded….and the first 10 of you can listen online @ kicy.org.
If it seems odd at a time like this to break into the action, think how odd it felt for me to leave race headquarters around 8pm for a pre-scheduled auction, to raise money for the AAS Queen contest.
They were auctioning off Iditarod & Nome memorabilia. I got suckered into buying an Iditarod checkpoint drop [...]
21:02 - Seavey into Safety - King in sight
21:06 - King into Safety
Before I get to the story, King & Seavey just left Solomon within minutes of each other, and I just got a report from a pilot that landed a few moments ago that Seavey is now in the lead, he witnessed this from the air, just out of Solomon.
Kudos to Kevin Klott from ADN for [...]
Mitch Seavey became the second musher to reach the checkpoint of Timber, at 16:22. Because Jeff King (who was there early this afternoon) hasn’t reached Topkok yet (its only 16 miles away) one could assume that while Mackey and Seavey spent their time resting in Council, King decided to head on and get his rest [...]
Posted in the comments section, from Marlene Moto, a resident of Deering (which was only a 45 minute snow machine ride to Candle).
I was at candle to witness the top 10 mushers in and outta there, king waited in candle just when mackey was coming in, he came in just in time to sign in [...]
13:03 this afternoon Jeff King arrived into the checkpoint of Timber (67 miles from Nome), while Mitch Seavey and Lance Mackey were resting in Council (85 miles from Nome). At that time, Seavey had been resting for 3 hours, and Mackey had been resting atleast 2. Because there are no outbound times from each checkpoint, [...]
Nate & I sit down again (in a very cold studio) and talk for almost 20 minutes this morning on what has transpired since last night.
In this podcast we cover:
Current Standings
Can mushers maintain this pace into Nome?
When will the first musher arrive?
What is going on with start differentials?
Scratch Updates
What can we learn from 2007 Kobuk [...]