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Time for a numbers post #iditarod fans!
This is the closest Iditarod we've seen in a while. Last time Iditarod was a checkpoint (2019), there was a 5 hour gap between 1st and 4th. 2020 had 5 teams in 5 hours. This year we'll have 5 teams within one hour.
Dallas is still leading, but not by much. He left his 24 in McGrath, went through Ophir, and halfway to Iditarod for a 4-hour camp. His GPS is not reporting consistently, so it's hard to follow. He could either camp in Iditarod then make a similar run back to McGrath, or go through Iditarod by an hour or two and then straight back to Ophir.
Right behind him is a whole pack of teams: Joar Ulsom and Travis Beals are together and probably within sight of Dallas, and Richie Diehl and Pete Kaiser are within 15 minutes, and they're headlights are probably visible on long stretches. All 4 of those teams took the 24 at McGrath with Dallas, then stopped in Ophir for a 3 hour break. So they're an hour down on rest since the 24, and will be coming off a longer run when they arrive in Iditarod. I expect all to take a real camp in Iditarod. All 5 of these teams should arrive in Iditarod around noon.
Ryan Redington is just 10 miles back, having taken his 24 in Ophir, and he seems to be headed straight to Iditarod too, likely arriving 1:30 pm-ish.
Then there's Brent Sass, already in Iditarod taking his 24. He can leave at 7:02pm. Compared to the teams coming off the 24, he made pretty good time going over to Iditarod, he was only 20 minutes slower from Ophir to the point where Dallas and Co are now.
So if we assume a 12-1pm arrival in Iditarod for these teams, they'll likely stay 4 hours, so 4-5 pm the departures will start.
While I've written this, Travis Beals appears to have passed Dallas, but their GPSs aren't updating on the same cycles, so it's impossible to tell for sure. When you see two GPS blips passing back and forth, it's actually one updating, then the other. The teams may pass once, but dog teams don't pass back and forth racing down the trail. Travis has been the fastest team, and it looks like Dallas stopped and let him by rather than let Travis draft of him.
I hope you weren't planning on getting any work done this week,
Danny
-Paige Drobny, remarking on the sparse accommodations at the Ophir checkpoints, where teams taking their 24-hour rest had to fight for space in the single heated arctic tent provided for the mushers.“We knew it was a tent camp. We just thought it would be a tents camp.”
-Iditarod Musher and Dallas' Training Partner Sean Underwood's take after seeing Dallas in McGrath."He (Dallas) looks trail hardened. When I look at his face, I'm like, "MAN!" That's what it takes to be first? Not that he's an ugly guy, OK, he's a good looking guy. Just saying he's got like chapped lips, whatever. Might want to put some chapstick on."
-Wade Marrs"The Gorge and Burn is nothing you can train for, you just hold on and hope for the best."
-Multiple McGrath checkpoint volunteers, after Joar zoomed out of the dog yard in McGrath after his 24 and the coat he had sitting on the back of his sled seat flew off. The volunteers all LEPT into action--they were very concerned."YOUR JACKET! YOur Jacket! HEY!!! HEYYYYYY!!!!"
- Susannah Tuminelli. She was camping between the Nikolai and Rohn checkpoints when she woke up to her pocket on fire after a box of matches began to burn.“My pocket was flaming, and I didn’t understand what’s going on because I just woken up.”
- Nicolas Petit (This helps me understand so much more about Nicolas Petit.)“It’s not a race. It’s a trip that I take every year.”
-Zachariah Huges, Iditarod reporter. Please do yourself a favor and look at the picture of this beautiful creation here: https://twitter.com/ZachHughesNews/stat ... 2512029696 (If you zoom in real close on the “Musher Outhouse” paper plate sign it reads: “Taj Mahal” along the top and “Consider it the Red Monster of the Interior” along the bottom. I’m dying laughing.)“The outhouse is a bucket inside a fort made of hay bales and a tarp.”
gave me quite a chuckle!Dallas 'son of a mitch' Seavey
Interviewer: “How do you deal with the cold?” Pete Kaiser: “You just sit there and shiver…”
“I couldn’t understand why my toes were so cold and then I hear it was 52-below and that would explain it.” -Joar Leifseth Ulsom
“Joar is hard to read right now.” -Bruce Lee “He’s always hard to read, though.” -Greg Heister
“My goal is always to win as easily as possible.” -Dallas Seavey
“This portion coming up is definitely my favorite portion of the race. This is where we actually get to race finally. After all year of training. The first third of the race getting these guys into a routine and a habit. The second third of the race putting us into position. Now, the final third, we actually get to do it. So that’s kind of fun.”
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