March 14, 2007
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Lance won!
At about 8:12 PM, give or take a minute or a few, Lance Mackey’s team pulled under the burled arch in Nome. This makes him the first musher ever to win both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in the same year. It was also a record-setting time in the Quest and his third Quest championship in a row.
I’m unsure of the exact time, because the webcam was so busy that it kept timing out for me and when I finally got it to refresh that time, he was under the arch and the crowd was moving in that direction.
UPDATE:
They arrived at the arch at 20:08:41 on 3/13/07. Their time was 9 days 5 hours 8 minutes and 41 seconds.
Eric Rogers finally made it into the Iditarod check point at 5 PM today, after 65 hours on the trail from Ophir. He scratched there. Ellen Halverson is the current Red Lantern, out of Shageluk with 12 dogs.
Comments (4)
Thank you so much for all your hard work during the races. It was greatly appreciated and i loved sharing this with you. The webcam was just so busy they ran out of bandwidth…so that is probably why it wasn’t refreshing like it should have. We had the same problem here too.
Again… you are a real gem and thank you so much for everything! hugs…
They said on the news last night (early news) that he was in the lead, so I’m not surprised he won… though I suppose anything could happen with a race like this. Hope the rest of the mushers make it safe and sound… pooches too.
I have been so thankful for your updates on the race
Being down in Seattle instead of home in Alaska, I feel completely removed from the Iditarod for the first time in a long time- your updates have been wonderful and welcome 
I was wondering who won.
I always enjoy these posts.