What a day!!

It was hard to keep you all up to date working...but I'm OFF tomorrow so I can certainly post all sorts of hourly updates.  Dallas of course will be finishing in first place out of White Mountain...he gets to head out of White Mountain at 10:10  pm Eastern Standard Time.

Mitch made it into White Mountain at 6:41 pm Eastern Standard Time.....beating Burmeister to the checkpoint who has just reached White Mountain as I write this.

So....1st place it pretty much set if no storms upset the apple cart...BUT second is a bit up for grabs between Mitch and Aaron Burmeister.  Aaron will certainly want to redeem some kind of placement since the lead was taken from him on the coast, and Mitch.....well Mitch would probably love to have the Seavey's secure the first and second placements in this race because it has never been done before....ever!!  Let's face it....there is a bit of a Seavey Dynasty happening here....Dallas won his first in 2012...then Mitch in 2013....then Dallas again in 2014.....in 2015 I'm sure many would love to see the 2 come together as a united Seavey front....1st and 2nd....younger and elder.  Dallas was the youngest to EVER win this race...and Mitch was the OLDEST to win it in 2013....it was his second championship too that year.  So the race for second will be a good one....Burmeister trying to play the spoiler....and Mitch trying to put the icing on the cake of the Seavey Mushing Dynasty.

And then you have Jessie.  Jessie has run a VERY smart race and is presently at mile 895.  She is an awesome Musher and there is a great clip on Iditarod.com where Jessie yells over towards an Aliy  interview that Aliy will win the Iditarod.  Laughs are shared between the two...it's cool to watch the interactions between these two.  Jessie will quite likely lock up the 4th place into Nome.....but I'm willing to bet Aliy will make her work for it as any good competitor would!

And then there is Aliy at mile 882.  She took a little longer rest in Elim and my guess is she really wants her 3 eight year old superstars to be with her in Nome....Quito, Nacho and Chica.  If these veterans needed more rest to be in top form I'm sure Aliy obliged.....the thought of being without them at the finish would be too big of a void.....enjoy the ride to Nome Aliy....with an awesome Team of SP Kennel Atheletes!

To keep the pressure on Aliy is Joar Ulsom.....a up and coming fantastic musher who will be one to watch from this point out.  It will be fun to watch Joar chase Aliy into Nome!  Joar is presently resting at mile 871.

Jeff King just left Elim and is presently at mile 859.