All the mushers that are going to finish the Iditarod this year have completed the race to Nome. Yesterday afternoon the 52nd team crossed the finish line. 15 teams had already dropped out.
Last week, on March 18th, Lance Mackey finished first for his third consecutive win. He matches only two others to win three in a row, Susan Butcher (1986, 1987 & 1988) and Doug Swingley (1999, 2000 & 2001). As a matter of fact there's only been 7 mushers to win multiple races. Rick Swenson holds the record for the most wins at 5. One multiple winner, Martin Buser, who's won four times, also holds the record of the fastest finish ever in 2002 (8 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, 2 seconds). My brother Bob actually went to Alaska years ago and lived and worked with Martin and his dogs.
Here's a photo of me and Brad in Alaska in 2007 posing at the end of Martin's driveway. We were excited to find the Buser Kennels. We went up to the kennel's and spoke with Martin briefly. He didn't have much time to talk, he was cleaning up dog crap. Lots and lots of dog crap.
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