Iditablog.com – Iditarod 2010 News and Coverage

In our final podcast of the 2009 Iditarod Season (we’ll continue blogging for another week or so) we talk about the top 20 Iditarod finishers, talk about “next year” and review the news.

Thanks to all the thousands of you who have downloaded the podcasts this season.  You’ve blown us away – your support is appreciated.

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Recorded version of the Live finish and post-show coverage.

Thanks to the nearly 4,000 of you who joined us LIVE during Lance Mackey’s amazing win.

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Today we speak with Damon from the Bering Straight School District, live! in Nome as he and the Student Broadcasting team prepare for a finish tomorrow sometime. We also recap the harsh weather conditions that mushers currently find themselves in, along with the strategies that come along with the new challenges.

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In tonights “return of the Podcast” Greg Ireland & I sit down again and talk about:

• where we find the current race leaders (Unalakleet)
• What’s happened since our last podcast
• Notable awards along the trail
• We answer your tweets & emails
• Running down Iditarod 2009 Coverage on Versus TV network
• Looking ahead to the finish

Thanks everyone for subscribing and downloading these podcast, we hope to do a handful more as the race goes up the coast and finishes in Nome!

Remember, you can subscribe to podcast via iTunes (link) and follow us on Twitter (link)

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Today we continue talking about the mushers 24-hour layover strategy, knowing that the race will look very different in just a few hours as the leaders emerge from their rests. We talk more about the loss in Jeff Holt’s team the other day, as well as the current scratched mushers.

keep sending your questions to josh@radioalaska.org, we love hearing from you – thanks again to the THOUSANDS of you who have been downloading our shows!

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In today’s podcast we look back at the trail coming up to Nikolai and discuss the wide and large field of mushers going into this latest checkpoint. We also see whats going on at the BSSD Forums before previewing the next few legs of the race.

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In a “post re-start” podcast we take a look at the field of mushers in this year’s Iditarod – who has a chance at the top ten and twenty? We re-visit the BSSD Forum and talk about the innovations of Jeff King, and get a newcomer’s reaction to the GPS trackers used on Iditarod.com.

Feel free to email us with topics or questions you’d like to hear us discuss on the next episode… the email address is: josh@radioalaska.org.

P.S. There were a few issues with the mics at the beginning of the podcast, but hopefully they are worked out.

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