Now that Aliy and the team have arrived into the Iditarod Checkpoint we have made a Dog Fan Club draw. Congratulations to Carrie, Shawn, Percy & Bella who are fans of Izzy. You win a signed Iditarod Drop bag, a glam shot of Izzy and some other kennel goodies. Izzy … Read More
It’s 1:45am. Feeling: Exhausted by proxy. Aliy and the team have pulled in to Iditarod checkpoint. They will take their mandatory 24 hour rest there. It will actually be 25 hours, 8 minutes before they are able to leave the checkpoint as the differential time from the staggered start is … Read More
It’s 8.30pm. Feeling: Impatient to see the team arrive into Iditarod. Aliy has taken a gamble! And, like any gamble in life it might work or it might not and we won’t find out until much later down the trail. A 24 hour stop in Iditarod was Aliy’s Plan A … Read More
That answers that! They are on their way to Iditarod. Ophir-Awesome!
It’s 8am Alaska time. Feeling: energised despite a lack of sleep. What’s going to happen next? Aliy and the team are in Ophir, having arrived there just after 6am. Overnight they ran through the Takotna checkpoint, spending just three minutes to check-in and out. Whether the team takes their 24 … Read More
It’s 8.30pm Alaska time. Feeling: Curious where the team will take their 24. Right now the team is stopped at McGrath checkpoint. They ran the 48 miles over from Nikolai in roughly seven hours (at the time of writing the Current Standings have not been updated with her run time) … Read More
It’s 10am Alaska time. Feeling: Amazed at technology to enable us to watch live from rural Alaska. Several teams have pulled in to Nikolai this morning. Aliy and her mates arrived at 8:58am as the fourth team in. Watching the live feed the Insider set up in the checkpoint we … Read More
It’s 8.15pm Monday evening – Feeling: encouraged that the evening is cooling down Summary After spending three hours at Finger Lake this morning, Aliy and the team ran through the technical trail down the Happy River Steps and climbed up to Rainy Pass checkpoint on Puntilla Lake, where she rested … Read More
Its 7.00am local time. Feeling: relaxed the dogs are settling into routine. Overnight Aliy and her team rested three hours at their camp spot on mile 74 before moving through Skwentna checkpoint and on to Finger Lake, arriving around 5.30am. There she and the team are currently resting. Teams are … Read More
It’s 9.30pm local time. Feeling: Relief to have them on the trail. Currently, Aliy and her team have stopped to camp at mile 74 on the Yentna River, about nine miles short of Skwentna. They blew through Yentna checkpoint this afternoon at 6.36pm. Aliy will rest her team a few … Read More
