RJHale Posted March 5, 2011 Report Share Posted March 5, 2011 The Iditarod has finally started for 2011... ok so it started about 3 hours ago but hey I WAS ASLEEP so it doesnt count. http://www.iditarodforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=73 I wonder who will win this year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Andy Posted March 5, 2011 Report Share Posted March 5, 2011 The Iditarod has finally started for 2011... ok so it started about 3 hours ago but hey I WAS ASLEEP so it doesnt count. I'm sure if you call and explain the situation, they will understand. Tell them you were asleep. I'm sure they will restart it for you. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted March 5, 2011 Report Share Posted March 5, 2011 whoop defo following this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJHale Posted March 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2011 I'm sure if you call and explain the situation, they will understand. Tell them you were asleep. I'm sure they will restart it for you. . . yeah but you know... international calls and all are so damn expencive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elenamarie Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Anyone else read through the checkpoint details and descriptions of the entire course? Holy cow! My brother lived in Anchorage for 11 years, I never made it up there. Sure wish I'd made it for the start at least one year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutsibe Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 I'm sure if you call and explain the situation, they will understand. Tell them you were asleep. I'm sure they will restart it for you. . . Of COURSE they will - the restart is on Sunday, just for Rachel! yeah but you know... international calls and all are so damn expencive Quick, sign up as an Insider, so you can get up and watch it live on the Iditarod site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJHale Posted March 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Quick, sign up as an Insider, so you can get up and watch it live on the Iditarod site! yeah i know but it costs money i should have done it months ago when they first advertised it. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJHale Posted March 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Lance Mackey is doing 9.33mph... which is 15kph Martin Buser is doing 10.31mph.. which is 16kph and DeeDee Jonrowe is doing 3.86 mph... which is 6.2kph Person with the fastest current speed... Billy Snodgrass doing 41.54mph... which is 66kph.... i wonder if that is a typo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJHale Posted March 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Iditarod YouTube Channel!!! http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2011+iditarod&aq=f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJHale Posted March 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Day One: Swenson might scratch; Buser's dogs get loose Posted by Beth Bragg in Anchorage Posted: March 7, 2011 - 10:59 am 4 p.m. Monday update Five-time Iditarod champion Rick Swenson is considering his options after a physician's assistant confirmed that his collarbone is broken. Swenson was injured when he crashed on the Happy Valley River steps leading into Rainy Pass. He's considering a couple options, ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins said from Rainy Pass. One possibility is that he'll scratch. He's also considering dropping four dogs and running with a 12-dog team, Kyle reported. After mushers leave the Rainy Pass checkpoint at Puntilla Lake comes the actual Rainy Pass -- the highest point on the trail. And after the pass comes the Dalzell Gorge, a perilous downhill ride. The thinking is that with less horsepower, Swenson might be able to hang onto his sled on the despite the bad shoulder. Swenson also might declare his 24-hour layover in Rainy Pass and decide on Tuesday whether to scratch or keep racing, Kyle reported. 3 p.m. Monday update Rick Swenson suspects he broke a collarbone in a crash today on the Happy River Valley steps leading into Rainy Pass and is deciding whether to stay in the race or scratch. The 60-year-old Swenson, the race's only five-time champion, has limited range of motion in the shoulder, ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins reports from Rainy Pass. Meanwhile, four-time champion Martin Buser arrived at Rainy Pass with only 11 dogs after five got loose on the trail from Finger Lake. After about 30 minutes, two of the dogs wandered into the checkpoint on their own and the other three hitched a ride with musher Ken Anderson. "Apparently he got in a tangle with Newton Marshall out there in a real narrow section of the trail and he undid some dogs to get out of the tangle and the whole thing kind of popped loose and the dogs took off,'' race judge John Anderson said. Officials couldn't officially check Buser into the checkpoint until the missing dogs arrived. When they did, Buser checked and checked out in a hurry. --------------- Bundtzen bolts from Rainy Pass 1:45 p.m. Monday update Anchorage musher Robert Bundtzen zipped through Rainy Pass early this afternoon, hitting the trail to Rohn ahead of everyone else. Bundtzen, 61, checked in at 12:54 p.m. and left three minutes later. Still at the checkpoint was Lance Mackey, who was first to arrive at 8:08 a.m. but is resting his team for several hours. Bundtzen was the ninth musher to reach Rainy Pass. His team made the 30-mile run from Finger Lake at an average speed of 8.33 mph. Mackey's average speed was 9.33 mph; that's the fastest pace for that stretch by any of the mushers who have reached Rainy Pass. -------------------- Jonrowe returns to Finger Lake checkpoint 12:15 p.m. Monday update DeeDee Jonrowe logged some extra miles this morning when her team veered off the trail after leaving the checkpoint at Finger Lake, according to Iditarod officials. Jonrowe, who is running 15 dogs after dropping one in Skwentna, was the 10th musher to leave Finger Lake this morning at 6:29. But her team left the trail somewhere after Finger Lake, and after getting it back on the trail, Jonrowe decided to return to Finger Lake to rest her team. She left for a second time at 10:55 a.m., race officials reported. Checkpoint statistics still list her earlier departure time, but don't expect her to reach Rainy Pass till midafternoon. -------------------- Mackey plans to rest at Rainy Pass -- or so he says 11 a.m. Monday update Iditarod officials report six mushers into the Rainy Pass checkpoint, but don’t expect the leader of that pack  four-time defending champion Lance Mackey  to lead the charge down the Dalzell Gorge anytime soon. Mackey, who arrived at Rainy Pass with 16 dogs in harness at 8:08 a.m., told the Iditarod Insider that he plans to spend six to eight hours at the checkpoint. Of course, this being the Iditarod, mushers sometimes indicate they plan to do one thing, only to do another. Remember Mackey's fake nap in Elim back in the 2009 race, when he broke away from Jeff King? At any rate, a six-hour rest would put Mackey back on the trail shortly after 2 this afternoon, giving him a few hours of daylight to negotiate the treacherous Dalzell Gorge that awaits mushers when they leave Puntilla Lake, the site of the Rainy Pass checkpoint. On the run from Rainy Pass to Rohn, mushers go over actual Rainy Pass, which at 3,771 feet is the highest point in the race. The 48-mile run to Rohn, which includes a steep drop into the gorge, has busted its share of sleds, bones and dreams over the years. Ray Redington Jr. reached Rainy Pass at 8:32 a.m, 24 minutes behind Mackey. Hugh Neff came in at 8:57, followed by Sebastian Schnuelle at 9:23 and Paul Gebhardt at 9:26. An hour later, at 10:28 a.m., Girdwood rookie Nicolas Petit arrived. It was just above zero when Mackey arrived. Within minutes, his dogs were bedded down on straw in the shining sun, the Insider reported. -------------------- Mackey first into Rainy Pass checkpoint 9 a.m. Monday Lance Mackey is setting the early pace in the Iditarod, but contrary to GPS tracking of the race, he didn't blow past the trailsweeper on his way into Rainy Pass. Mackey, the four-time champ, reached Rainy Pass at 8:08 this morning, according to a post by Iditarod officials on the race's Facebook page. But he didn't beat the trailsweep there. "It appears that the location of the Rainy Pass checkpoint is off by about 9 miles. Lance arrived at Rainy at 0808 and has not left yet," according to a Facebook post by race officials. Mackey took the lead this morning on the 45-mile run from Skwentna to Finger Lake. He left Finger Lake at 4:55 a.m., 15 minutes ahead of Robert Bundtzen of Anchorage. Bundtzen, a 61-year-old doctor, has fallen off the pace, if the GPS tracking is to be trusted. Ray Redington Jr. is now listed as the second-place musher, followed by a pair of mushers who took on last month's Yukon Quest, which battered teams and drivers with some of the worst weather in race history. Hugh Neff, the leader of the Quest until his team stalled on Eagle Summit, where his race ended, was third out of Finger Lake and is still tracking as the No. 3 race, and Sebastian Schnuelle, the runner-up in the Quest, is fourth. Rainy Pass is 161 miles from Willow, where the race started on Sunday. Rohn, the next checkpoint, is 48 miles away. Read more: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/156068#ixzz1FyG1ids2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aronoiiel Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 man poor Rick I just ACHE be in this race I LOVE this every year thanks for all the awesome updates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darc-Brittany Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 I got insider coverage!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJHale Posted March 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Lance has left Rohn. I like Rohn as a name I want to name one of my dogs in the future that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoya&EisasMom Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 An Iditarod Insider subscription is well worth the price! I love all the daily video updates that are posted from every checkpoint. They really give you a feel for what it's like out there. Warning: it's highly addictive!!! I feel some serious sleep deprivation coming on over the next week........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz GO TEAM MACKEY.......MAKE IT 5 BACK TO BACK!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoya&EisasMom Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Lance has left Rohn. I like Rohn as a name I want to name one of my dogs in the future that Rachel.....What a coincidence....I've had Rohn chosen as the name for our next dog for over a year now! I always thought it would make a good husky name. The only reason Zoya didn't get the name was because she is a girl. Next one will definitely be a boy....don't know exactly when yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJHale Posted March 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Rachel.....What a coincidence....I've had Rohn chosen as the name for our next dog for over a year now! I always thought it would make a good husky name. The only reason Zoya didn't get the name was because she is a girl. Next one will definitely be a boy....don't know exactly when yet. Martin Buser's son is called Rohn lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elenamarie Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 And Rohn Buser finished the race a few years ago on his own team and his first attempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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