Iditablog.com – Iditarod 2010 News and Coverage

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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The Iditablog.com Podcast is back for Iditarod 2009! In our first episode this season we:

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Right before Lance Mackey’s 2008 All Alaska Sweepstakes 3rd place finish in Nome, Lance was hit by a snow machine. The machine was traveling at a high rate of speed behind Lance. He flashed his lights and yelled at the driver, but says it didn’t seem to matter. Mackey jumped off the sled just before the snowmachine hit the sled from the rear and ran it over.

The day after the accident Lance went on local Nome radio station KNOM and talked about his story.

We know things have improved quite a bit since then, but its still chilling to hear Lance tell this story.

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Attached is a recording of the live KICY broadcast. I co-hosted this broadcast with Nate Hobbs, Josh Remer was the mobile unit out at Fort Davis, and General Manager Dennis Weidler was back at the studio running the board.

Mitch arrived at 23:29, King arrived at 23:39

Keep looking for more fun things posted over the next few hours.

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This quick little clip was taken by Mr. Tom Mute of Nome, AK.

It does a good job of giving you a real feel of the craziness that was happening.

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Nate & I sit down again (in a very cold studio) and talk for almost 20 minutes this morning on what has transpired since last night.

In this podcast we cover:

• Current Standings
• Can mushers maintain this pace into Nome?
• When will the first musher arrive?
• What is going on with start differentials?
• Scratch Updates
• What can we learn from 2007 Kobuk 440?
• Where is everyone else right now?

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