Race Update! - Bet

In what the Eagle Cap Extreme organizers are calling "too close to call" all three of the 200 mile participants are now taking their 6-hour layover resting period in Ollokot.

Musher	Start Time	Salt CreekMile 9	Ollokot Mile 48		Ollokot 6hr Layover Mile 114		Ollokot Mile 152		Salt Creek Mile 193	Finish Mile 202
			In	Out	In
2 Richard Todd	13:03	14:05	18:40	21:39	10:04
3 Steve Madsen	13:06	14:04	19:05	22:56	10:02
4 Karen Ramstead	13:09	14:11	18:42	21:39	10:03

If you are a long-time North Wapiti supporter, you'll know what a layover means... yep, the Musher will either lose or set fire to her pants.  We have high hopes that Richard is similarly flammable, so just wait for that update.

In case you need a visual, here is where they are on the big race map:

I added the circle and arrows so you could see where they were, instead of squinting and looking at squiggly black and red lines.


Hats off to Eagle Cap Extreme for this really cool video of the start of the race

Richard is very handsome, and the Musher looks wonderful, so do the curly tails!

Of course there is no rest for the guard dog and the handler. We have to make sure the truck is safe, and provide updates, and drink coffee, and eat, and stay warm, and sleep. Its a rough life, but someone has to do it.  This morning we had to find some interwebs so we could update the blog, and here we are in action:

Helen (who smells like cookies) is a fantastic writer, but her spelling... eeesh.  She had a whole bunch of stuff about how wonderful the view was, and how the weather wasn't as cold as the curly tails are use to running in, and how nice the people were, and yaaawwwwn, I sent her off on a mission so I could punch up the blog entry a bit while she was gone.

Helen sends a shout out to the volunteer Ham radio operators who are very nice and informative.  I was very excited about the Ham radio operators until I found out that they don't talk on radios made of ham. 

More stuff later, Helen and I are going shopping.... um, I mean we're doing Handler stuff.

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