Norwegian races, Finnmarksløpet

[Heidi]

Dallas into Kirkenes

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[RAIMIS2]

I just checked out the site for the first time. This looks like a fantastic place to visit/watch the race.

[mira]

I know some of you asked about expected finish time.. I really don't know But we will try to figure something out...

[mira]

I looked at last years race, the winner used 2 days (1 day, 23 hours and 17 minutes) from Varangerbotn to Alta. Dallas and the other are on their way to Varangerbotn now.

This year, the trail is 15 km (9 miles) shorter from Varangerbotn to Alta, one checkpoint less (last year they went Varangerbotn - Sirbma - Levajok, now they are going straight from Varangerbotn to Levajok, 125 km/77 miles). The dogs have run 200 km (125 miles) longer. So not quite sure.. I'm guessing wildly at late Friday/early Saturday (Norwegian time).

Regarding CET (Central European Time, which we use in Norway) we haven't switched to DST yet (that is last Sunday in March). The time offset is 5 hours to east coast time...)

[ikh]

From Finnmarksløpet's FB page: "One of the front runners, Thomas Wærner, has scratched due to health issues in his team"
His dogs has got diarrhea and don't eat well...

[fladogfan]

https://www.facebook.com/finnmarkslopet ... o_explicit

Live at the moment

[mira]

From Finnmarksløpet's FB page: "One of the front runners, Thomas Wærner, has scratched due to health issues in his team"
His dogs has got diarrhea and don't eat well...

Oh *****.. that was a shame. Much disease this year, on mushers (both here and iditarod) and now dogs too.

[Eggs]

Drat. I wondered why he had been lagging. This is bad news.

[ikh]

Varangerbotn, Dallas first in, but it is close now: https://www.facebook.com/finnmarkslopet ... 016228456/

[Heidi]

Oh wow, I'm very sorry to hear about Thomas Waerner. He was neck and neck with Dallas for much of the race.
According to the GPS, Petter Karlsson (Sweden) is currently in first, Dallas second.

TOP TEN (3/14/18 @ 6:42 pm ET)

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STANDINGS

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