Iditarod

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race's leaders reached Koyuk on Monday morning with Dallas Seavey remaining in the lead by checking in at 3:17 a.m., more than ninety minutes ahead of Aliy Zirkle. The lead shrunk to twenty-two minutes since Dallas Seavey hit the trail at 8:29 a.m. and Zirkle following at 8:51 a.m. Monday. Aaron Burmeister arrived in Koyuk at 6:43 a.m. Monday and last year's champ, John Baker reached the checkpoint at 7:48 a.m. holding fourth place. Fifth place remained a close race with only fifteen minutes separating teams who checked into Koyuk close to 8:30 a.m. Monday.

Ray Redington Jr. 36 Ramey Smyth 36 Pete Kaiser 23 Jake Berkowitz 25 Aily Zirkle 41 Dallas Seavey 25 Aaron Burmeister 36   Dallas Seavey is the youngest-ever winner of the Yukon Quest. Libby Riddles was 29 when she became the first woman to win an Iditarod. Rick Swenson won his first Iditarod at the age of 27 Dick Wilmarth, the winner of the first Iditarod was 31 Carl Huntington Emmet Peters 35      

Aliy Zirkle arrived first in Unalakleet Sunday morning at 7:28 a.m. winning the Wells Fargo Gold Coast award and $2500 in gold.  Gaining ground behind Zirkle was Dallas Seavey, who arrived at 8:19 a.m. and Aaron Burmeister at 8:30 a.m.  Rounding out the top 5 is John Baker and Mitch Seavey.  Baker arrived at 9:08 a.m. and Mitch Seavey is still en route.  Zirkle is currently taking a break in Unalakleet before heading out to Shaktoolik....

Iditarod musher Dallas Seavey has claimed en route to Shaktoolik from Aaron Burmeister Sunday afternoon. Burmeister was the first musher out of Unalakleet at 12:35 p.m., followed by Seavey at 12:41 p.m. and Aliy Zirkle at 1:01 p.m. Seavey arrived in Shaktoolik at 6:35 p.m.,  27 minutes before Burmeister.  Seavey left on the 50-mile stretch to Koyuk at 6:38 p.m., followed by Zirkle at 9:15 p.m.  As of the posting of this story, Burmeister is...

Iditarod musher Aliy Zirkle has passed Mitch Seavey on the path to Nulato. Zirkle took her mandatory 8-hour stay in Galena, giving Seavey an opportunity to pass her on the trail.  Seavey left Galena at 9:20 p.m. last night, Zirkle hours later at 11:53 p.m. Zirkle made up the time on the trail, regaining the lead from Seavey and checking in to Nulato at 6:13 a.m. this morning.  Seavey arrived 3 hours behind her at 9:23 a.m., followed by...

Iditarod musher Aliy Zirkle is the first to leave Kaltag, starting her 85-mile trek to Unalakleet. Zirkle arrived in Kaltag at 11:14 a.m. and took a 5h 41min rest before taking off again. The next musher to arrive after Zirkle was John Baker, 3hr 18min later.  Following Baker was Mitch Seavey, Aaron Burmeister, Dallas Seavey and Jeff King.  No other musher has left as of the posting of this story. As of today, four mushers have scratched on the trail.  Silvia Furtwangler in Nikolai Wednesday, Ryan Redington in Takotna Wednesday, Wade Marrs in Ophir Thursday, and Zoya DeNure in Cripple Saturday.  Visit KTUU.com's special Iditarod section and watch the Channel 2 newscasts for more coverage from the trail, with social-media updates from KTUUSports on Twitter and Channel 2 Sports on Facebook.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race pushed through the halfway point with the top five teams making into Ruby on Friday morning. Mitch Seavey was the first to arrive at 6:00 a.m., but Aliy Zirkle checked in hours later at 8:55 a.m. and then hit the trails at 9:04 a.m. making her the early race leader on Friday morning. Dallas Seavey and John Baker remain in the top five checking into to Ruby before 9:00 a.m. Nome's Aaron Burmeister cracked the top five list by making it into Ruby at 9:05 a.m. Friday, and it's worth noting he still has his full roster of sixteen dogs where as the rest of the leaderboard has dropped one or two dogs.

Iditarod mushers cover long distances across some of the most beautiful terrain imaginable. But even great beauty can become monotonous when you are riding or pushing at the back of a column of dogs for a thousand miles. To overcome the burden of distance, each musher has a favorite form of entertainment. Something to take their mind off the miles, something to carry them across a few of those thousand miles blissfully unaware. For veteran musher Jeff King, it's partly in these lyrics.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race's standings received new leaders as teams approach Cripple on Thursday morning. 71-year-old Jim Lanier of Chugiak had the jump start on the leaderboard when he took off at 11:25 p.m. Wednesday out of Ophir, but he has yet to take his 24-hour mandatory layover. Trent Herbst, of Anchorage, left over an hour later at 12:35 a.m. Thursday out of Ophir. GPS tracking, as of 8:30 a.m. Thursday, showed Lanier still in the lead with Herbst trailing in second.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Raceis halfway over, with a few mushers delaying their mandatory 24-hour layovers -- and abandoning most hope of catching up with the leaders -- in an all-out drive for the trail's midpoint. Race standings updated at 2:33 p.m. Thursday say musher Jim Lanier was the first to reach Cripple at 1:55 p.m., darting out of Ophir at 11:25 p.m. Wednesday. The run gives Lanier GCI's Dorothy G. Page Halfway Award, as well as a $3,000 prize, for being first to reach the village halfway along the race's 975-mile course.