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Just pulled in at 6:56 AM east coast by my computer. Need to go through the equipment check and he will, officially, be the winner.
6:51 AM and Jessie Holmes 1 mile to the finish. I thought he would be done before I got up.
Matt Hall just pulled out of Safety with 10 dogs, 22 miles to Nome.
Paige pulled out of White Mountain ~11 PM Edit: meant that as 11 PM Alaska time/3 AM east coast
Ha! That's bitchin' idea.
I bet she doesn't realize a bunch of degenerate All/everything Hokie fans have a yearly thread watching her progress.
I pass the updates on to the tailgate crew that I always came to lot 18 with. (Dam good thing I'm not an English major.)
We need to dig out some of those expired Hardees coupons to get to her.
Saw that on reddit. What a shitty break.
I still would love to see a Paige AMA on the key play, of course if she was interested.
Frosty... again, thanks. Every year this is a great distraction.
The fact that a Hokie will finish 3rd in this incredible race is AWESOME!
Paige needs to get recognition in Lane Stadium (if that interests her).
Once again, thanks for being our guide every year Chris! The insider info and interviews (that you pay for) and share are fantastic!
Jessie Holmes took a long time to get the team set up. Pulled out at 8:54 PM east coast, ~15 minutes past when he was eligible to go. Should get to Nome early tomorrow east coast time.
Jessie is getting his team ready.
Meanwhile, further back, apparently Millie Porsild had tried to pull out of Koyuk, but the were not doing well. She came back feeling they need more rest.
A bunch of people on the live chat were talking about how they feel bad for Jenny. That is rookie Jenny Roddewig. Apparently, someone stole her supplies at Kaltag2. Unless someone moved them out thinking they were someone else's and were to be packed out. This is what was posted on her kennels' Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/sagemtnsleddogs/
"We just received an update from Jenny. Unfortunately, all her drop bags in Kaltag were stolen. My (Mike) care package for her was also stolen. Jenny has managed to scrounge enough supplies to keep going, but this is a major setback and very disheartening."
Not sure if she will be able to keep going or not.
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# | Sorta OT: Stephen Curry Named Asst. GM of Davidson Basketball, Leading Eight-Figure NIL Fundraising Effort If I remember correctly, Steph said essentially that when asked on that episode of Hot Ones he did. If the man himself says I wouldn't be as good if I had gone to an ACC school that wouldn't have allowed him to play through his freshman year struggles, you have to go with it.
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# | Sorta OT: Stephen Curry Named Asst. GM of Davidson Basketball, Leading Eight-Figure NIL Fundraising Effort Yup. Tough to do a double blind study.
There are the awards along the trail. Jessie picked up another one as the first to arrive at White Mountain. The
Northrim Bank Achieve More Award, which is a $2,500 check and a trophy. I think he has won all of them except the Feast on the Yukon that Paige took. But I might have missed one. There is the rookie of the year award for the first rookie to reach Nome. Looked like Emily Ford was going to run away with that one, but Samantha LaLonde holds the lead rookie position now. Both are resting in Unalakleet, but Samantha got there first. There is an award for the most improved musher and another, the name escapes me, for the most inspirational or most gentlemanly or most admired or some such as well. I'll have to look that one up.
But, as was mentioned above, you do get prize money fairly far down the list. With so few likely to finish this year, might be that everyone who finishes gets some amount, even if it might be small.
Edit: here is the list of the various awards. Oh man, I completely forgot to include the Red Lantern Award! Doh! The one I was trying to remember was the Sportsmanship Award.
Had short videos of Jessie and Matt as each one came into White Mountain. Jessie looked pretty beat. Said his team looked mentally tired coming into Elim and decided he had to take a break there. Said the team bounced back pretty quickly after the rest. When he was moving the sled over to the parking area, the team was getting tangled up with a checkpoint worker and then seemed to be pulling in different directions on the way over. Needed to give many more commands to get them parked.
Matt Hall seemed much more energetic and cheerful. His team also seemed to just go straight over to the parking area.
I'm probably reading too much into this, but it does make me wonder if the remaining stretch as longer if Matt's team would be able to overtake Jessie's. Hard to imagine that will be the case with the size of the lead, the short distance remaining and the team getting 8 hours of rest, but I wonder if Matt is just going to run out of distance and could do it if there was more race left. We will never know.
Thursday evening at ~7:15 PM east coast.
First of all, Hokietopher and Little Bobby Tables, thank you for keeping things going. Trying to get a big proposal out at work. Ugh. Anyway, as mentioned, Paige is safely in to White Mountain with a comfortable leads on the 4th place team. We have:
1. Jessie Holmes resting in White Mountain with 11 dogs 1,057 miles in/71 to Nome. He is eligible to leave at ~4:40 PM Alaska time/~8:40 PM east coast
2. Matt Hall resting in White Mountain with 10 dogs 1,057 miles in/71 to Nome. He is eligible to leave at ~7:50 PM Alaska time/~11:50 PM east coast
3. Paige Drobny resting in White Mountain with 12 dogs 1,057 miles in/71 to Nome. She is eligible to leave at ~10:44 PM Alaska time/~2:45 PM east coast
4. Michelle Phillips resting with 9 dogs in Elim, 1,008 miles in/120 to Nome
5. Mitch Seavey - at 65 years old - running 10 dogs 989 miles in/139 to Nome
6. Ryan Redington running 9 dogs 985 miles in/143 to Nome
7. Travis Beals resting on the trail with 11 dogs 976 miles in/152 to Nome
8. Bailey Vitello resting on the trail with 12 dogs 975 miles in/153 to Nome
9. Millie Porsild with 9 dogs resting in Koyuk, 958 miles in/170 to Nome. She has been there a long time, since about 6:20 AM east coast. Hopefully she is not having a problem, but after waiting this long, I'm guessing something must be up. Unless her GPS isn't working either?
10. Riley Dyche running 10 dogs 908 miles in/220 to Nome
Red lantern position is held by Jenny Roddewig with 10 dogs resting in Kaltag2, 785 miles in/343 to Nome
Duke vs UNC in semifinals. Most likely Duke wipes the floor with the Tarholes again
Also, by saying something along the lines of, within 30 hours of expected trail time, to the leader, you could have mushers drive their dogs too hard attempting to keep up with an arbitrary time.
I understand the heartache by those dropped. There will be good points on several sides of this issue.
Looks like Paige just pulled into white mountain to do her mandatory 8 hour stop. Jesse can leave in about 2 hours and Matt in about 5 hours. Guessing the top 3 finishers are pretty much set at this point.
Not Frosty, but there's cash for high placers. If you look on Paige's profile on the Iditarod site, you can see how much she's won over the years.
Headed to Sandy River Reservoir in Prince Edward County in a couple of weeks to try and catch some pre-spawn/spawning bass. This used to be an annual spring trip but will be my first time in a several years save a late summer trip a while back. We hope to put some big girls in the boat but more than anything look forward to spending a few days on the water and away from work. Not sure if anyone is up that way or if there was any way to see how water temps are trending. The weather here in far SWVA has me wanting to fish if I can ever get over the flu. Good luck and tight lines everyone - spring is coming.
As of the noon local (1600 EDT) update, Jesse Holmes has been resting in White Mountain for 3h21, while Matt Hall has just arrived 7m prior, having transited the 49 miles from Elim in 6h26m, slightly above Holmes' time of 6h17m. Paige is still between Elim and White Mountain, having left 3h40m prior. If she's going at the same pace Holmes and Hall did, she should arrive in White Mountain at around 1440 local (1840 EDT), about 2h before Jesse's 8h rest ends. Two more racers have reached Koyuk since the last update, and there are a total of five racers between Koyuk and Elim.
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| Pos | Musher | Bib | Checkpoint | Time | Dogs | Time | Dogs | Rest Time | Time Enroute | Checkpoint | Time Out | Speed |
| 1 | Jessie Holmes | 15 | White Mountain | 3/13/2025 8:39 | 11 | 6h 17m | Elim | 3/13/2025 2:22 | 7.8 | |||
| 2 • | Matt Hall | 4 | White Mountain | 3/13/2025 11:53 | 10 | 6h 26m | Elim | 3/13/2025 5:27 | 7.62 | |||
| 3 | Paige Drobny | 26 | Elim | 3/13/2025 4:02 | 12 | 3/13/2025 8:20 | 12 | 4h 18m | 6h 12m | Koyuk | 3/12/2025 21:50 | 8.06 |
| 4 | Mitch Seavey | 32 | Koyuk | 3/13/2025 6:22 | 10 | 3/13/2025 6:57 | 10 | 0h 35m | 11h 41m | Shaktoolik | 3/12/2025 18:41 | 4.28 |
| 5 | Michelle Phillips | 14 | Koyuk | 3/13/2025 1:49 | 10 | 3/13/2025 7:07 | 9 | 5h 18m | 6h 31m | Shaktoolik | 3/12/2025 19:18 | 7.67 |
| 6 | Bailey Vitello | 22 | Koyuk | 3/13/2025 9:25 | 12 | 3/13/2025 9:34 | 12 | 0h 9m | 13h 35m | Shaktoolik | 3/12/2025 19:50 | 3.68 |
| 7 | Travis Beals | 6 | Koyuk | 3/13/2025 9:27 | 11 | 3/13/2025 9:40 | 11 | 0h 13m | 11h 49m | Shaktoolik | 3/12/2025 21:38 | 4.23 |
| 8 | Ryan Redington | 16 | Koyuk | 3/13/2025 6:38 | 9 | 3/13/2025 11:11 | 9 | 4h 33m | 7h 26m | Shaktoolik | 3/12/2025 23:12 | 6.73 |
| 9 | Mille Porsild | 18 | Koyuk | 3/13/2025 2:19 | 9 | 9h 28m | Shaktoolik | 3/12/2025 16:51 | 5.28 | |||
| 10 | Nicolas Petit | 7 | Shaktoolik | 3/13/2025 2:44 | 13 | 3/13/2025 3:37 | 13 | 0h 53m | 5h 44m | Unalakleet | 3/12/2025 21:00 | 7.33 |
Frosty: For the Iditarod, is it there's a 1st place and everyone else is last (I'm overstating this to be concise) or are there awards for certain places behind 1st?
Thanks
BTW: I'm really enjoying following this each year - we appreciate your thoroughness and helping us all out.
28 points between both teams in the last 3 minutes
Production versus participation. 2022 into 2023 was him getting injured and recovering but last season he actually had the second most carries of his career
wonder if the evidently difficult trail conditions played a part in it too
I wonder if one of the talented people here can do a Dog on a Treadmill T-shirt?