Can Lance Mackey be stopped?
Hello, everybody. I Twittered this morning with news that Lance Mackey left Shaktoolik and was on to Koyuk as the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is in its second week. Well right now, he is in Koyuk with 123 miles to go. But watch out for Sebastian Schnuelle; he's on Mackey's tail, exiting Shaktoolik at 10:00 am Alaska Time.
Lance is well on his way to becoming the second musher to three-peat since the last one from Doug Swingley in 1999-2001. The late Susan Butcher first won three years in a row from 1986-88; it came a year after Libby Riddles' only title and those two have been the only females so far to win the Iditarod (Aliy Zirkle, DeeDee Jonrowe, and Jessie Royer are now 13th, 14th, and 15th respectively).
Will it happen? The famous Burled Arch is in place on Front Street in Nome right now waiting for Mackey's arrival, and if the weather holds up, we may be expecting him between tomorrow night (yes, on St. Patrick's Day!) and early Wednesday morning (around the time the East Coast starts to wake up). We'll see what happens, so so long and stay strong.
Hello, everybody. I Twittered this morning with news that Lance Mackey left Shaktoolik and was on to Koyuk as the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is in its second week. Well right now, he is in Koyuk with 123 miles to go. But watch out for Sebastian Schnuelle; he's on Mackey's tail, exiting Shaktoolik at 10:00 am Alaska Time.
Lance is well on his way to becoming the second musher to three-peat since the last one from Doug Swingley in 1999-2001. The late Susan Butcher first won three years in a row from 1986-88; it came a year after Libby Riddles' only title and those two have been the only females so far to win the Iditarod (Aliy Zirkle, DeeDee Jonrowe, and Jessie Royer are now 13th, 14th, and 15th respectively).
Will it happen? The famous Burled Arch is in place on Front Street in Nome right now waiting for Mackey's arrival, and if the weather holds up, we may be expecting him between tomorrow night (yes, on St. Patrick's Day!) and early Wednesday morning (around the time the East Coast starts to wake up). We'll see what happens, so so long and stay strong.
