Teams made their way into the popular rest stop checkpoints of McGrath, Takotna and Ophir Tuesday night and all day Wednesday with the back of the pack hitting McGrath Wednesday night leaving Richie Beattie in Nikolai as the final musher. Beattie, according to his kennel page on Facebook, is taking his mandatory 24+differential hour layover.
Jessie Holmes ran through to Takotna, coming in around 10:30pm Tuesday night. The Champion musher bedded his team and declared his 24 citing his not feeling well and hoping a good break would be just what he needed to be able to clear up whatever he is fighting to compete in the second half.
Riley Dyche and Matt Hall elected to continue on past Takotna and they (along with Lauro Eklund and a couple other teams) are 24ing in Ophir.
Back with Holmes are Paige Drobny, Peter Kaiser, Jessie Royer, Ryan Redington and Travis Beals (to name a few). Holmes will be the first to come off his 24 and can leave Takotna on his way to Ophir at 11:30pm AKDST. He'll have just over an hour before Paige will be hot on his heels.
If this blogger's math is to be believed (and let's face it, it probably isn't) then Riley Dyche can be first to leave Ophir at 5:54am Thursday. Jessie will most likely be well ahead of Dyche by the time the team starts up again, but will have several hours of running on them with Dyche having fresh legs. While Holmes has control of the race - for now - he is by no means running away with the competition just yet.
It's quiet right now. All trackers are showing teams at rest. The insider live feeds have lots of happy sleeping dogs, a few locals wandering about, but everything is quiet and at peace. Fans should take the opportunity to shower, clean house, catch up on insider interviews, or just go to sleep. We have several hours before things get moving again.
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