MACKEY WINS IDITAROD!!!!
At 8:08 pm Alaska time Lance Mackey won the 2007 Iditarod accomplishing a feat thought until now to be impossible: a back to back run (not to mention win) of the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod.
Clint and Cindy are still at place 40 and 41. Clint is out of Unalakleet and Cindy is out of Kaltag.
The last place musher left Ophir at mile 443 (600 miles from the finish line) and didn't make it to Iditarod at mile 533. Trail sweepers found him at a place called Don's Cabin and are taking him to some place a plane can land and take him out-obviously he is scratching. Reports are that there is nothing seriously wrong (hey, I would consider being lost in some of the wildest part of the trail something WAYYY wrong!).
I still plan on writing a blog about the communities from Iditarod to Nome (the last half of the race) and a blog on Susan Butcher. Probably this weekend. For now I am celebrating Lance Mackey's win!
2 comments:
Yay for Lance! That's an unbelievable feat, winning two races in a row. Did he use the same team of dogs? How amazing! Do they get sponsers for doing good, like in bass fishing? Will some brand of something or another (Purina?) sponser him next year? Sorry, lots of questions...
Yes, he basically had the same team. He had intended to run his young team in the Yukon Quest and his older dogs in the Iditarod but changed his plans. So he took mostly his more experienced dogs to both races. He finished with 8 or 9 dogs and I think all but one also did the Yukon Quest. They can get sponsers and I'm sure ti is easier to get them once you have won. I don't think a brand sponsers a musher although I could be wrong-it seems like they do things like sponser a prize or some other thing that benefits the race as a whole....but I am not sure about that. If you have time to read some of the articles in the ADN link they have some of that information.
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