Pete Kaiser has passed Nic Petit, but only went a few miles further up the trail and is now resting at mile at mile 232. Meanwhile, Joar was the first to break camp and is currently running at mile 221 at a good clip! Jessie Royer and Aliy are running together at mile 213 while the rest of the chasing Teams remain at rest, stretched out from mile 210 to 208.
Although Nic and Kaiser have taken the role of the rabbits to chase, there is a whole lot of miles yet to go and this is still a wide open race. Mitch is reportedly carrying dogs, and his run times are a bit longer due to the fact he is loading and unloading dogs on each run....fingers crossed that strategy will have diminishing returns so he just starts to mush like everyone else! There are a lot of teams banking rest and will no doubt catapult forward once their strategies start to play out.
There is unbroken trail of deep powder between Ophir and Iditarod that will be worked on by the trail breakers soon. This section of trail is not traveled at all in the winter because there are no year round residents in this area. Will any Teams run all the way to Iditarod or Ophir to take their 24 hour rest? Time will tell!
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