It’s 4:00pm. Feeling: frustrated at the weather Gods. Rain? Seriously? Aliy and all 14 team mates have moved through Shageluk and Anvik and are currently on the way to Grayling. They posted the fastest time from Iditarod to Shageluk for all the teams so far with a 7 hr 11 … Read More
Karolyn and her team are safely on the trail – heading towards Two Rivers Lodge, 50 miles away. What does a rookies first race look like? Do you want to hear what it’s like in the parking lot at a dog race?
Right on time at 2:46am, Aliy and all 14 team mates pulled out of Iditarod after their 24 hour break. You’ll see on the standings she now has the first ‘mandatory rest’ green tick next to her name. Once everyone has two green ticks then we will really know who … Read More
We have another race to follow! The Two Rivers Dog Mushers Association is hosting the Two Rivers 100/200 this weekend. Earlier in the season the race was postponed due to a lack of snow but the trails are ready and it will start tomorrow – Friday, March 8th. Karolyn will … Read More
It’s 11pm. Feeling: refreshed from avoiding the tracker all day! Those with the Insider package have been treated to a number of videos today featuring Aliy. I guess she was Johnny on the Spot for interviews as she spent all day there. In the first video we got to see … 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
