February 20, 2008
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Four in a Row for Lance Mackey
Lance Mackey and his team of eleven dogs won this year’s Yukon Quest, his fourth consecutive win, this morning at 1:23, fifteen minutes ahead of his next door neighbor, Ken Anderson and his team of eight. It was Anderson’s first Yukon Quest. Mackey’s time on the thousand-mile trail was 10 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes.
The photo, from the Fairbanks News-Miner, shows Lance in white on the right, congratulating Ken at the finish line in Whitehorse this morning.
The next four teams: David Dalton, Michelle Phillips, Brent Sass, and Kelley Griffin, are taking mandatory rests in Braeburn now, and the earliest any of them can leave there is 9:15 AM, local time, about 15 minutes from now.
Comments (6)
Thanks for the update! Hope you are doing a little bit better today than you were yesterday. hugs
Good to see you again! The political issues are of interest to me, too. Unfortunately, neither binary party seems to take my position on most things. It’s a case of too much regulation in either direction or something. I wish there was more individuals could do. Education and communication are the keys, though, I think. I’ll see how I like Fight Club as a book. A few people I know loved it and a few found it mediocre. The people I know who went to hear Palahniuk speak at a college a few years ago weren’t impressed. To each her own
What kind of prizes do they win for that, I wonder.
and I I was so sorry to hear about you being ill…
@MyKi_Whatzerface - First place paid $35,000.
There is something clean and wholesome about a dog sled race.
It reminds me of “Call Of The Wild” by Jack London.
@forwhomthebelsentolls - Sled DOG race, Randy, not dog SLED. The sleds don’t do the racing, and the winner is the first nose across the finish line.