Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Iditarod results

Congratulations to Lance Mackey for finishing first in the Iditarod. Lance and nine of his dogs (16 started the race) pulled into Nome a tad after 10 P.M. local time. It took him 9 days, 5 hours, 8 minutes and 41 seconds to complete the trek from Anchorage to Nome.

Lance’s father, Dick, won the race in 1978 by just one second and his older brother, Rick, captured the title in 1983. Both of them were competing in their sixth Iditarod and wearing bib number 13. This being Lance’s sixth Iditarod, he, of course, chose number 13. Seems to have worked out just fine.

Second place went to Paul Gebhardt who finished third last year. This year’s third place finisher was Zack Steer and fourth place went to Martin Buser.

No comments: