hi gang just forwarded the first email to our musher winners, martin and rohn buser to tell them of our awards and their wins. heres a copy of the email sent to them. over the next few days/week i will try and email the rest of the mushers.
maybe we should find some little trophy of sorts to send to them?
what do you think?
tangles
Dear martin and rohn
hope your back safe and sound and relaxing post race as best you can! wow what a race this year in the iditarod, we were rooting for you and thought the flying tracker idea was fantastic, really made us all laugh! Rohn your runs were fantastic, and we were all rooting for you to win rookie of the year and to finish the race, we are very impressed with your finish, congratulations!
Anyway apart from congratulations to you both for finishing the race, i wanted to tell you guys that you have both won some more awards!
i dont know if you are aware but there is a website called the bering straits schools district iditaproject or BSSD for short the website is
http://www.mushing.bssd.orgits run by the kids and techers of the bering straits schools as a public website for all iditarod and mushing fans, but is also home to the forum members of the old cabellas iditarod forum. they are collectively known as the 'idita-buddies' and come from all over the world such as the UK Norway, poland, all over the USA and AK and use the forum at bssd as their home. they are all hardened iditarod and mushing fans and use the site for live links during the race, updates, share info on mushers, discuss run rest scheduals etc etc, its basicaly the friendliest and most hardcore mushing fan forum. some of the lengths members go to find information and support the race and mushers from around the world is astounding and all in good humor!
each year after the red lantern has arrived in nome we get together to have our own idita-fan banquet, vote on our own awards for both members of the site and the mushers running the trail. all members vote over a weeks period on their pick for the awards ceremony.
this year martin won one award and rohn one award as voted by the iditarod fans!
firstly martin you won the award for the most comical moment in the race this year, for your flying tracker trick! it was one of the funnest things us iditarod fans have seen during someones 24 mandatory layover, next to the hawaiian shirt of course!
you were unanamously voted the winner of the award by 97% of the members voting! a record!
we also have an award for the best looking musher, this year it was voted by over 65% of the voting members to be award to THE BUSER BOYS! the two of you, martin and rohn, won the award together as although you were both racing seporate races, you were still considered a team and most of the members voted you both as the best looking mushers in the 36th running of the iditarod!
to give you an idea how many folks voted, this year we had over 11'000 posts on the forum during the race from race fans at bssd! i think the new itc site had about 3000.
iam afraid we dont have anything to send you guys, cheque or trophy wise at the moment but were working on it!
so well done boys, you guys and your beautiful teams won two extra awards and have given us much enjoyment, heart aches, surprises and laughs and inspiration during the race this year, congratualtions both and thank you for all you both do for our sport of mushing!
best wishes
matt hammersley (tanglefoot) and the members of the BSSD iditaproject forum.
p.s if you would like to see the rest of the awards follow the link,
http://mushing.bssd.org/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=50i know the fans would love to hear your replies if you have time during the off season, we have some great mushers dropping in do to questions and answers with the fans. regualar iditarod mushers such as rick holt, darryl seavey, karen ramsted and a few others are all members of the site.
Believe in your dog team and your dog team will believe in you. – Frank Turner
TANGLEFOOT SLED DOG RACING TEAM