So, after I posted the information about mushers making up their starting time at some unknown checkpoint along the trail, I got a phone call from race headquarters alerting me to the fact that the other day, at the closed mushers meeting, the “dog runners” told race officials that they all would rather not make up time, and just race to the finish line instead.

There has not been any press releases or statements from the Lead Judge about this, and other than the heads up from HQ, I don’t have much to go by. All I know is the official race rules, and what I heard happened at the meeting. I guess all we can do at this point is wait for some official word. I’m supposed to be talking to the Race Director sometime this evening, we will see if he has anything to say on this matter.

Apparently another rule change that came out of that closed meeting was that there would be no 24 hour waiting period once the first musher crosses the finish line, and that they would immediately be declared as the winner. Originally the 24 hour period was another flashback to how the race originally was run, and would give other mushers the opportunity to file a complaint against the potential winner. No word on this change was passed along or put out in a statement after the meeting…… we’ll check more into this as well.

I also updated the top ten standings to include Ramy Brooks…..it was a typo that he wasn’t in there.

In other news, word just came in that Jeff Darling was the last musher to arrive INTO Boston just a few moments ago, and is taking right off on his way to Telephone! The checker said that the weather in Boston is beautiful, and five below.

Posted by admin on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm.