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Archive for March 9th, 2006

King Catches Up!

Posted by admin on March 9th, 2006

He’s at it again .Paul Gebhardt, (despite losing his dogs for an hour or so earlier during the race) has passed the lead group of mushers taking their 24 hour rest in Cripple, and is heading onto Anvik where he will take his layover. If you look at the time it took him to [...]

24….no, not the tv show.

Posted by admin on March 9th, 2006

Jeff King took his in Takotna, current race leader Doug Swingley is taking his in Cripple and others are following. This is a point in the race when you can really seen things change around because of the mandated 24 hour layover. Not only can the leaderboard get confusing because it fails to reflect [...]

Keeping Secrets

Posted by admin on March 9th, 2006

I’m amazed. Not that Doug Swingley is keeping his lead and is hours ahead of anyone else leaving Ophir well, something about that is amazing, but I’ll get to that in a few minutes.
Martin Buser, who 24 hours ago was WAY behind in checkpoints and HOURS behind the race leaders has somehow managed to [...]