Alaska (AP) - Alaska women ranked second, tarot trail sled dog race last year was the first to catch the 1000 miles on a Saturday night.
, liangjiang Aliy Zirkle, was the first musher checkpoints in Kaltag, about 346 kilometers from the complete. In front of the driver, is expected to reach the finish line in Nome, Alaska's old gold mining town on the west coast early next week.
Team has been in the thick snow depth overflow the aggravation of the yukon river, driving on the road above freezing point temperature. There are significant glare of ice.
Zirkle, 43, took the lead from the four world champion, Martin, who was the first out of the eagle island Saturday morning in previous checkpoint. The 54 year-old veteran, Alaska, from the lake down two dogs in the eagle island.
Cloth to plug can hope for a second gate had asked 40 years history in the game 5. He was the first to achieve Kaltag, and 24 arrived in 11 dogs at 2 PM on Saturday.
Left the eagle island Zirkle cloth after more than three hours. Former iditarod driver Sebastian Schnuelle said, her team speed more and more one day, she was gone within a few miles of cloth to plug Kaltag before stop her team before the rest of the 8 km.
Schnuelle, who is along the trail and maintain a blog iditarod website, says he met Zirkle when he arrived at her snowmobiles.
"Her dog had just finished a meal," he wrote. "When she spoke, she told me that she doesn't want to run more than eight hours, this is why her camp".
Title to Kaltag, team chasing cloth at a faster speed than his dog, his dog possible indicators, need a long time rest Kaltag.
Cloth stuffed tried strategy early in the game there are a lot of competitors, shaking his head, but he hopes that it will pay off for him to noam first. Match the competitive part of the next day, cloth stuffed his mandatory rest for 24 hours, after RON checkpoints, blister fast run 170 miles, he lead the other team.
From then on, all the teams took 24 hours of rest.
Cloth, said he was not worried about the performance of others, because he has no control.
"You have only run your ability, not what others are doing," he said, on Thursday in video at Iditarod.com. "It really just comes down to you and your dog."
All mushers, must take the second eight hours of short stay at checkpoints baishan, noam 77 kilometers.
In the first musher reached Nome will win the $50400, and a new dodge ram 2013 pickup. The rest of the $600000 purse will be broken up, the future between 29 mushers, crossed the finish line.
There are 66 teams at the beginning of the game ceremony began in anchorage on March 2. Competition in the willow began to start on Sunday. Five mushers have scratches, veteran Michael Suprenant Chugiak was the last time. Watch him race officials say Suprenant scratches on Saturday, 12 bulls in ghost domain iditarod station.



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