Time 7:15am Race Mile 800 Returned Dog Update According to the Current Standings, Aliy has had to leave two team mates behind. (EDIT: The standings were amended and she still has 11 team mates!) We know one is Chevie but unfortunately, at the time of writing, we are unsure of … Read More
Time 11pm Race Mile: 772 Tonight I am thankful this race is still on and we can follow the teams to Nome. All the rest of the world news is unsettling and stressful so to have this to focus on is a blessing. It’s late Monday night, apologies for radio … Read More
To celebrate the team getting to the Western Coast of Alaska we made another Dog Fan Club Draw. Congratulations to Tammy Duncan-Swope who is a fan of Violet, QT fans Diane and Jim McConnell, Mrs Price’s 3rd Graders who are Commando fans and Bruno fan Brenda Dias. You all win … Read More
Time 4.55am Race Mile 714 Aliy and her team of Amber, Chevie, Cloud, Decaf, Dutch, Five, Jefe, Junior, QT, Rodney, Spark and Violet (in alphabetical order because I have no idea of her running order right now) have hit the western coast of Alaska. 260 miles to Nome! After spending … Read More
Time 7.30pm Race Mile 676 Aliy and her 12-strong team left Kaltag at 12:24pm after their mandatory eight hour rest. The dogs will have had a couple of good big meals and plenty of rest while Aliy will have gotten some rest herself. There won’t be much more rest to … Read More
Time 8.00am Race Mile 629 After spending a fraction under five hours at Nulato, Aliy and her 12-strong team continued down the Yukon to the checkpoint at Kaltag where they arrived at 4.21am this morning They will see out their eight hour mandatory rest here to collect their second ‘green … Read More
Time 7.40pm Race Mile 582 Aliy and her 12 teammates checked into Nulato checkpoint at around 5:20pm this afternoon (official time tbc). Having spent 4 hours, 38 in Galena and only 12 minutes in Ruby, she will have needed to declare an eight hour stop either here in Nulato or … Read More
Time 6:50am Race mile 545 Returned Dog Update Last night as Aliy took the team through the checkpoint of Ruby she had to bench Kodiak and leave him with the vet and volunteer crew there. He developed a sore wrist before Ruby and with snow back in the forecast she … Read More
Time: 6.00pm Race Mile 483 Aliy and her team are camped about 12 miles short of the Ruby checkpoint, right at Thirteenmile Creek on the Ruby to Portman Road. They are currently in 24th position. Camping here means we expect she will move through the checkpoint, pick up supplies and … Read More
Time 8:50am Race Mile 425 Woohoo! Off they go after their 25 hour 10 minute rest in Cripple. Aliy as all 13 dogs with her. She now has the first of the two green ‘mandatory stop’ ticks next to her name in the current standings. The second tick is the … Read More
