Kjetil Backen rockets into Rohn, and into the lead, Aaron Burmeister, Lance Mackey, Paul Gebhardt and others give chase.
2004 seems like a long time ago, and with Kjetil Backen, Robert Sorlie, and Bjornar Andersen taking turns running the race for team Norway, and with Sorlie having an off year in 2007, it is sometimes easy [...]
Over the course of the race, call our toll free Iditarod comment line and be entered into a drawing to win an Iditarod prize pack, mailed to you from the finish line in Nome. The prize pack will include Iditarod 2008 memorabilia. Give us a call, answer our “Iditablog Call” question from the [...]
As the first few mushers approach Rainy Pass, its hard to hold back the wild speculation that can come from looking at the leader-board. We are SO early in the race that as fans we are almost no better off than we were on Friday before anything started. There is a little [...]
The re-start in Willow went as planned and we now have 95 Iditarod teams out on the trail on their way to Nome. GB Jones became the first official musher to scratch from the race, he ran the 11-mile course in Anchorage with his Iditarider, and then withdrew due to a previous injury.
Late tonight [...]
After a nice, leisurely 11-mile fun-run this morning, mushers, their handlers, and hundreds of tourists are right now getting checked into their Anchorage area hotels, or spending the night at a friend’s home, getting ready for the hour long drive out to Willow Alaska, the new official restart location of the Iditarod. Saturday morning’s [...]
I’m sitting here watching the ceremonial start of this year’s Iditarod, and getting very excited about this upcoming race. There is lots of talk (as always) about the “dirty jacket” young mushers who have the potential of upsetting favorites like Jeff King, and Martin Buser.
The two big contenders (and big talkers at the Mushers Banquet [...]
Its about that time of the year again, Lance Mackey won the Yukon Quest again, and we’re almost a week away from Iditarod 2008. I’ve been crazy busy at work over the last month or two, but things will be slowing down just in time for me to devote every waking minute of the day to [...]
I’ve been catching the Iditarod coverage on the versus network over the last few weeks, Its really pretty impressive the type of national feel they give to the Iditarod. I know that the whole crew at versus works really hard to capture the whole Iditarod story and put it into a 3 hour TV [...]