Rainy Pass is still pretty early to be developing race leaders, but the top 10 right now looks pretty believable. Ramey Smyth checked out at 2:46pm, that’s 3.5 hours ahead of Jessica Hendricks and Lance Mackey. Bjornar Andersen is going to start his race for the lead over the next few checkpoints, he technically is [...]
The Winter Games Have Only Just Begun
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
The Torino Olympics may be history, but the excitement of winter sports competition is not limited to the Italian Alps. This month marks the 34th running of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in [...]
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Iditarod 2006 is definitely underway. Right now the race leader is Lance Mackey who is the only musher so far to pull into the “Finger Lake†checkpoint, he did so at 6:19am this morning. Right behind Lance is Rookie Bryan Bearss who left Skwentna last night. [...]
So today is it the big day that I’ve been waiting a year for: the start of the Iditarod Dog sled race. Last year when we were in Alaska working for radio station KICY, I was able to cover the race for the station, even flying out to the beginning of the race in [...]