The roster boasts an incredibly strong field with six Iditarod Champions (Pete Kaiser, Joar Leifseth Ulsom, Mitch Seavey, Lance Mackey, Jeff King, and Martin Buser), and four Yukon Quest Champions (Brent Sass, Lance Mackey, Aliy Zirkle, and Jeff King). Jim Lanier, after having to re-qualify for Iditarod this season, will attempt to continue his record of being the only musher to run the Iditarod in every decade.
In researching the musher links, it's fun to learn about each team - there are a lot of fantastic stories and goals represented in this roster. Enjoy reading up on all of them as I have.
*Updated March 5 with Bib Numbers.
Which teams are you cheering for? Comment below!
Team Ryan Redington!
ReplyDeleteYay Ryan!
DeletePoor Ryan! Toni is cheering for him!
DeleteI remember him! I was a checkpoint volunteer at the Yukon Quest. I checked him in, thrilled to be talking to mushing royalty. I was crushed and bewildered when he began yelling at me and questioning why he needed to be checked in when he had done all that in Dawson City (+200 miles ago). I apologized, as Canadians do, and checked with the Checkpoint Manager to be sure I had not made any mistakes. That is the only time in 9 years I’ve been yelled at by a musher. If that had been my first year as a volunteer, I’d never have come back again. However, I just put it down to him being unnerved by the long distances between checkpoints, the weather, or a personal issue.
ReplyDeleteI hope he does well at the Iditarod.
Oh no! I don't know which musher we're talking about, but a lot of the time it is stress from a long race on very little sleep.
DeleteWow!!! I'm impressed - that's a lot of work.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Thankfully I started doing this earlier in the season with the mid-distance races (not all of them but a few) so it was a simple copy and paste for quite a few of the teams. :) But, yeah, this is kinda proof that I have WAY too much time on my hands!
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Nice. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThank you for reading :)
DeleteRooting for Lance Mackey!! You go Lance!! I will be following you all the way!!
ReplyDeleteI'm really hoping he has a good trip to Nome!
Delete5 Teams (too bad they cannot all be on my Fantasy team): Buser/HTK, Phillips/Tagish Lake, Zirkle/SP, the King/Homestead & team Wild & Free
ReplyDeleteThat's a good list to follow. And yes the Fantasy Mushing team choices are always so hard!
DeleteThank you Toni! Rooting for ALL THE TEAMS to have a safe and happy trip! :) But it would be nice if Nic or Michelle won.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have a lady win! 30 years since Susan Butcher won her 4th and final one. It'd make for great headlines.
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