Looking at the Iditarod competition as the teams make their way down the Yukon River, there are 20 teams still in competitive position, and it’s hard to tell who’s winning. Here’s some of the criteria I use. There’s nothing scarier [...]

We always hear about the Changing of the Guard. Guards must always be changing. Every heist in every movie all time has happened during the changing of the guard. Seriously, you’d think security companies would catch on by now. But [...]

Musher Bib Layover Martin Massicotte (r) 2 25:52 Tim Pappas 3 25:50 Kristy Berington 4 25:48 Ramey Smyth 5 25:46 Fabio Berlusconi (r) 6 25:44 Wade Marrs 7 25:42 Linwood Fiedler 8 25:40 Peter Kaiser 9 25:38 Lev Shvarts 10 [...]

I’ve been posting stats all day showing that the mushers in front at Nikolai usually ends up in the front at Nome. The run from Nikolai to McGrath is an even stronger indicator. The team that ‘wins’ that run [...]

With Iditarod Insider’s awesome live-cam coverage from checkpoints, fans have witnessed dog team after dog team happily mushing into checkpoints like well-oiled machines. All lines tight, beautiful trots on full display. We then watch those same dog teams rest [...]

That was an interesting night of racing. I woke up expecting to have the first teams in Nikolai and the rest spread over 50 miles. Instead we have 25 teams in a big line, and it’ll be at least an [...]

The Hippocratic Oath* can be modified to fit the first few days of the Iditarod. As the saying goes, you can’t win the Iditarod in the first hundred miles, but you sure can lose it. How fast they’re moving, how [...]

But they’re all trail miles! Mitch is officially a classic. He was born July 1959 in Minnesota - the same year Alaska became a state. Gas was 25 cents a gallon, a new car was $2,200, and you could buy [...]

I decided to try something new, instead of the usual ‘Pick the Top 10’ I’m going to convert each musher’s chances of winning into odds. It’s a lot harder than it looks, because there’s only 100% to go around. When [...]