Daniel wrote:Yeah, it's great fun for us to watch such a close race.
I am not sure, what Dallas is doing atm? Short runs, very short rests? But definitely to early to count him out.
I think Dallas is trying to figure out a way to beat his dad. Everyone expected him to run through Unalaklet and do the race up the coast in three runs.Jake Berkowitz lays this strategy out nicely in this article https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/ ... wn-seavey/ But Dallas didn't do that. He stopped and rested. That tells me that Dallas is thinking. If you can't beat the other musher running his same schedule then you have to run a different one. The only other way is to cut rest up the coast but if he doesn't go into it with plenty of rest in the bank his team will crash and burn. We have seen it happen plenty of times most recently when Brent's team quit in WM after he cut rest chasing the Seaveys up the coast last year. He knows that with plenty of rest he can not only go faster ( or at least match Mitch's speed) but he might be able to cut enough rest to catch him. He is hoping that Mitch's blazing speeds have taken its toll on the team and that he will slow down. If he can catch him then Dallas' athleticism will win the day because Mitch doesn't run behind a sled.