LATEST SNIPPET The 2016 Iditarod Sled Dog race started on March 5 with 26 women and 59 men. Aliy Zirkle was the first woman across the finish line for 3rd over-all at 09:42 on 3/15/16.
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Last Great Race on Earth You can’t compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race over 1150 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow, long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Iditarod. A race extraordinaire, a race only possible in Alaska. From Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast, each team of 12 to 16 dogs and their musher cover over 1150 miles in 10 to 17 days. It has been called the “Last Great Race on Earth” and it has won worldwide acclaim and interest. German, Spanish, British, Japanese and American film crews have covered the event. Journalists from outdoor magazines, adventure magazines, newspapers and wire services flock to Anchorage and Nome to record the excitement. It’s not just a dog sled race, it’s a race in which unique men and woman compete. Mushers enter from all walks of life. Fishermen, lawyers, doctors, miners, artists, natives, Canadians, Swiss, French and others; men and women each with their own story, each with their own reasons for going the distance. It’s a race organized and run primarily by volunteers, thousands of volunteers, men and women, students and village residents. They man headquarters at Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Nome and Wasilla. They fly volunteers, veterinarians, dog food and supplies. They act as checkers, coordinators, and family supporters of each musher. The Spirit of Alaska! More Than a Race… a Commemoration The race pits man and animal against nature, against wild Alaska at her best and as each mile is covered, a tribute to Alaska’s past is issued. The Iditarod is a tie to — a commemoration of — that colorful past. The Iditarod Trail, now a National Historic Trail, had its beginnings as a mail and supply route from the coastal towns of Seward and Knik to the interior mining camps at Flat, Ophir, Ruby and beyond to the west coast communities of Unalakleet, Elim, Golovin, White Mountain and Nome. Mail and supplies went in. Gold came out. All via dog sled. Heroes were made, legends were born. In 1925, part of the Iditarod Trail became a life saving highway for epidemic-stricken Nome. Diphtheria threatened and serum had to be brought in; again by intrepid dog mushers and their faithful hard-driving dogs. The Iditarod is a commemoration of those yesterdays, a not-so-distant past that Alaskans honor and are proud of. An Event for All Alaska Anchorage is the starting line — a city of over 250,000 people, street lights, freeways and traffic. From there the field of dog teams which grow in number each year, runs to Eagle River, Checkpoint # 1. After a restart in the Matanuska Valley at Wasilla, the mushers leave the land of highways and bustling activity and head out to the Yentna Station Roadhouse and Skwentna and then up! Through Finger Lake, Rainy Pass, over the Alaska Range and down the other side to the Kuskokwim River — Rohn Roadhouse, Nikolai, McGrath, Ophir, Cripple, Iditarod and on to the mighty Yukon — a river highway that takes the teams west through the arctic tundra. The race route is alternated every other year, one year going north through Cripple, Ruby and Galena, the next year south through Iditarod, Shageluk, Anvik. Finally, they’re on the coast — Unalakleet, Shaktoolik, Koyuk, Elim, Golovin, White Mountain and into Nome where a hero’s welcome is the custom for musher number 1 or 61! The route encompasses large metropolitan areas and small native villages. It causes a yearly spurt of activity, increased airplane traffic and excitement to areas otherwise quiet and dormant during the long Alaskan winter. Everyone gets involved, from very young school children to the old timers who relive the colorful Alaskan past they’ve known as they watch each musher and his team. The race is an educational opportunity and an economic stimulus to these small Alaskan outposts. The “I” logo, a trademark of the Iditarod Trail Committee, Inc. and the Iditarod Race, was designed by Alaskan artist Bill DeVine in the early years of the race. The design is done on a white background with blue thread for the dog and inner outline. The Outer outline is done in red. The design is used on a shield in some instances and that variation was used on wooden trail markers in the earlier races. On the Trail Every musher has a different tactic. Each one has a special menu for feeding and snacking the dogs. Each one has a different strategy — some run in the daylight, some run at night. Each one has a different training schedule and his own ideas on dog care, dog stamina and his own personal ability. The rules of the race lay out certain regulations which each musher must abide by. There are certain pieces of equipment each team must have — an arctic parka, a heavy sleeping bag, an ax, snowshoes, musher food, dog food and boots for each dog’s feet to protect against cutting ice and hard packed snow injuries. Some mushers spend an entire year getting ready and raising the money needed to get to Nome. Some prepare around a full-time job. In addition to planning the equipment and feeding needs for up to three weeks on the trail, hundreds of hours and hundreds of miles of training have to be put on each team. There are names which are automatically associated with the race — Joe Redington, Sr., co-founder of the classic and affectionately know as “Father of the Iditarod.” Rick Swenson from Two River, Alaska, the only five time winner, the only musher to have entered 20 Iditarod races and never finished out of the top ten. Dick Mackey from Nenana who beat Swenson by one second in 1978 to achieve the impossible photo finish after two weeks on the trail. Norman Vaughan who at the age of 88 has finished the race four times and led an expedition to Antarctica in the winter of 93–94. Four time winner, Susan Butcher, was the first woman to ever place in the top 10. And of course, Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Iditarod in 1985. There are others — Herbie
Nayokpuk, Shishmaref; Emmitt Peters, Ruby, whose record set
in 1975 was not broken until 1980, when Joe May, Trapper
Creek, knocked seven hours off the record… the flying
Anderson’s, Babe and Eep, from McGrath.. Rick Mackey,
who wearing his father Dick’s winning #13, crossed the
finish line first in 1983, making them the only father and
son to have both won an Iditarod… Joe Runyan, 1989
champion and the only musher to have won the Alpirod
(European long distance race), the Yukon Quest, (long
distance race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, YT) and the
Iditarod… Terry Adkins, retired from the United States
Air Force, the only veterinarian on the first Iditarod and
one of the two musher to have completed 20 out of 23
Iditarods. (The other is Rick Swenson.) The list goes on,
each name bringing with it a tale of adventure, a feeling of
accomplishment, a touch of hero. Each musher, whether in the
top ten, or winner of the Red Lantern (last place) has
accomplished a feat few dare to attempt. Each has gone the
distance and established a place for their team in the
annals of Iditarod lore. The 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race ended at 1:15 pm (AST) today with14 of 16 women finishing and 40 of 50 men finishing. http://bit.ly/YGFWjZ See scorecard here. Five of the women have crossed the finish line at the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race, 1 scratched leaving 10 still on the trail. Mitch Seavey has won the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race in 9 days, 7 hours and 39 minutes. Aliy Zirkle finished 2nd for the second year in a row just 24 minutes behind Seavey. 9 men and our first woman, Jan Steves, have scratched, in the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race. Aliy Zirkle is 25 minutes behind the leader with 22 miles to go. 2 more men drop out with 77 miles to go in the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race and Aliy Zirkle ia only 13 minutes behind the leader. 80 miles to go in the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race and Aliy Zirkle ia only 23 minutes behind the leader. A sixth man has scratched and all 16 women are still on the trail at 21:07:31 on 3/11 in the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race. A fourth man has scratched. All 16 women are still on the trail and Aliy Zirkle is in 2nd at 22:31:25 on 3/7 in the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race. As Tuesday comes to a close on the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog
race, women hold 3 of the top 8 positions As Monday comes to a close on the 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog
race, women hold 5 of the top 8 positions The 2013 Iditarod Sled Dog race will begin March 2 at
exactly 10:00am AST from The 2012 Iditarod Sled Dog race began March 3 at exactly
10:00am AST from The 2012 Iditarod Sled Dog race began March 3 at exactly
10:00am AST from The winner of the 2011 Iditarod Sled Dog race was John Baker on 3/15/11 at 9:46am. Ramey Smith was 2nd. Three women arrived early Wednesday morning. Jessie Royer in 10th, Aliy Zirkle in 11th, and Dee Dee Jonrowe in 12th. The race concluded on 3/20 with Ellen Halverson bringing in the Red Lantern at 10:45a (AST) The toughest race around (1112 miles in 10 days). The
re-strat begins March 6, 2011 at 2pm AST, 6pm EST. 24% of
the field are women. The Iditarod. Iditarod 2013 Kicks Off With
Festive Ceremonial Start In Anchorage Mushers and their dogs took a leisurely jaunt through Anchorage on Saturday in the ceremonial start of Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The 1,000-mile race kicked off in a festive mood as 66 teams posed with fans and sailed their sleds 11 miles on streets covered with trucked-in snow. Each sled carried an Iditarider, a fan who won the short ride at auction. "Today is fun, with a capital F," said smiling veteran musher Aliy Zirkle, the runner-up in last year's race. "If you don't have a good time on Saturday with your dogs and all these fans, you're not in the right sport." The event comes ahead of the real, competitive start of the race Sunday in Willow, 50 miles to the north. This is when teams leave the big crowds behind for remote terrain shared mostly with their dogs. "Today we have fun. Tomorrow we're serious," defending champion Dallas Seavey, of Willow, said Saturday between chatting with spectators and signing autographs for fans, including Bunky Nistler of Beach, N.D. Nistler said the Iditarod was on her bucket list following her husband's death of cancer a year ago. "I've been in love with the Iditarod for over eight years," she said. "This was my dream of a lifetime." From Willow, where the race clock starts ticking, mushers and their dog teams will begin making their way through unforgiving wilderness toward the finish line in the old frontier town of Nome on Alaska's western coast. Before reaching their destination, the teams will cross mountains, frozen rivers and forests before hitting the wind-pummeled coast. They'll sign in at village checkpoints, sometimes stopping for mandatory layovers. The winner will get a new truck and $50,400. The rest of
the $600,000 purse will be split between the next 29 mushers
to cross the finish line. Of 658 mushers who have run the Iditarod, only15 have won as of 1/2/03
Source: www.geocities.com/taekwondoman2002/rankings.html
2015 2014 2013 16 women in the field of 66 (24.2%) 2012 17 women in the field of 66 (25.8%) 2011 15 women in the field of 62 (24.2%) 2010 15 women in the field of 71 (21.1%) 2009 13 women in the field of 67 (19.4%) 2008 22 women in field of 96 (22.9%) 2007 12 women in field of 82 (14.6%) 2006 15 women in field of 83 (18.1%)
Iditarod Trail Committee announced that 74 mushers have signed up to run the 975 mile 2012 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race including 18 women, three more than last year. 68 mushers started the race including 17 women. At this time 6 of the 22 rookies entered in Iditarod XL are women. * * * 2011 Jr. Iditarod - 2/26/11 * * * Iditarod Trail Committee announced that 72 mushers have signed up to run the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race including 16 women, the same as last year. At this time 7 of the 22 rookies entered in Iditarod XXXVIII are women. 2010 Jr. Iditarod - 2/27/10 * * * Iditarod Trail Committee announced today (December 5, 2008) that 71 mushers have signed up to run the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race including 16 women. At this time 5 of the 16 rookies entered in Iditarod XXXVII are women. 2009 Iditrod - 3/7/09 * * * 2008 is the 36th running of the 1,100 mile Iditarod Trail
Sled Dog Race. Click Status
of the Women as of 20:36:12 on 3/17/08. The race
started on March 1st and the first person finished on
3/12/08 at 2:46:48. Deborah Bicknell, a rookie, was the Red
Lantern crossing the finish line in the 78th spot at
20:36:12 on March 17. Seventeen musher scratched and one
withdrew. Northern Route - Miles Standings on AKDT Keep track here 
http://bit.ly/yMYKCH
As of
3/19/16 3/16 Musher Comments Kristin
Bacon (r) 3/19 14:41:54 3/17 13:44:47 3/17 04:58:27 3/17 04:58:14 3/8 09:50:0066 3/17 06:54:11 3/16 01:37:30 3/19 14:39:38 3/19 18:46:26 3/16 15:19:00 Mary
Helwig (r) RL 3/19 23:51:30 3/17 04:55:00 3/17 13:29:13 3/16 14:30:05 3/17 22:32:32 3/18 12:43:06 3/18 04:31:41 Miriam
Osredkar (r) 3/1801:41:50 3/18 04:31:32 3/16 07:07:18 3/15 18:42:33 3/7-03:12:00 3/17 18:29:51 Sarah
Stokey (r) 3/18 17:59:51 3/17 15:17:32 3/15 09:42:36 Legend: R - Rookie; RL - Red
Lantern (last), S - Scratched; W-Withdrew. *End of
day 43rd (XLII I) running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog
Race - 2015 As of
2/18/14 3/1 Musher Finish Comments RL Laura Allaway Gwenn Bogart Yvonne Dabakk R R Heidi Suttter Isabelle Travadon R Legend: R - Rookie; RL - Red Lantern (last), S -
Scratched; W-Withdrew. *End of day
Northern Route - Miles Standings on AKDT Keep track here
http://bit.ly/yMYKCH
As of
2/18/14 3/1 Musher Finish Comments Yvonne Dabakk R R Marcelle Fressineau R RL R R Abbie West R R Legend: R - Rookie; RL - Red Lantern (last), S -
Scratched; W-Withdrew. *End of day Southern Route - 1049 Miles Standings on AKDT Keep track here
http://bit.ly/yMYKCH
Northern Route Standings on AKDT Keep track here
http://bit.ly/yMYKCHDirect shortcut to this spot: http://bit.ly/ymqVJG
Southern Route Standings on AKDT Keep track here Direct shortcut to this spot: http://bit.ly/fgEaOc
38th (XXXVIII)running of the Iditarod
Trail Sled Dog Race - 2010
While the scew is just slightly in favor of the women finishing and rookie women finishing, it shows that women and men are pretty equally matched in the Iditarod. And, with few exceptions, that sponsorship has a huge roll in how far up the finishing ladder you end up.
Legend: R - Rookie; S - Scratch; W -
Withdrawn 37th (XXXVII) running of the
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race - 2009 ( Women represent 13 of 67 mushers)
While the scew is just slightly in favor of the women finishing and rookie women finishing, it shows that women and men are pretty equally matched in the Iditarod. And, with few exceptions, that sponsorship has a huge roll in how far up the finishing ladder you end up.
36th (XXXVI) running of the
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race - 2008
Source: www.adn.com/iditarod/interactives/story/333339.html
Women Who
Have Run the Iditarod (1974-2002 + 2008-12) I count 116 women who ran the Iditarod between 1974-2002 and 2008-12. Six of those are rookies scheduled to run in 2012. I'm missing additions for 2003-07. Have I missed anyone else? Do I have someone in here who I confused as a woman because of the name?
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