by elsietee » Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:22 pm
So Matt went through Elim, while Jessie stopped.
Jessie is moving again after a 2 hour break, but Matt is now 10 miles down the trail. It's a bit tortoise and hare - Jessie is faster, but Matt is steadier. Time will tell if Matt can maintain his lead (and keep it once they leave WM tomorrow). Kudos to Jessie for being patient - it has to be hard to watch your main opponent go down the trail.
Dallas is 14 miles from WM (and Matt is 20 miles behind him) - and just stopped briefly presumably to snack/switch dogs.
Behind Jessie, the teams are evenly spaced - Jessie, then 10 miles to Travis; then 9 miles to Jeff and Paige (still running in tandem); then Mille 20 miles back. Jessie R, Pete, and Amanda are still in Koyuk, rounding out the top ten.
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I'm whiling away the time by watching the race documentaries that they are streaming continuously on one of the channels. So many familiar faces I'd forgotten about. They don't tell you which year it's from, so it's a cliff-hanger to see who wins - although I remember some of the incidents that happened along the trail (Mitch just cut his hand open and was withdrawn on this one currently showing).
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elsietee AT ponyhill DOT org
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, CA
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