Iditarod

All Hail Lance Mackey

After riding a rocket sled to win the Yukon Quest in record time a week or so ago, Lance Mackey was the first to reach the ghost town of Iditarod today, the halfway point of the 1,150 mile dog sled race to Nome.

Mackey picked up $3,000 in gold nuggets for setting the pace so far in the Iditarod dog sled race, not a bad haul I’d say. (Though I bet after five day son the trail he’d rather have a hot bath and a steak dinner.)

But who’s hot on Mackey’s heels? Paul Gebhardt got to the checkpoint in Iditarod just six minutes after the Mackey rocket sled, so maybe we do have a race, assuming Gebhardt and his team can keep up this pace for another four days or so. Bringing up third place is the 2004 Iditarod champioin Ed Iten, who’s almost six and a half hours behind the two leaders. Of course there’s a whole lotta race left, so no one is totally out of it yet.

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