Dallas Seavey Wins 2015 Iditarod

Dallas Seavey, the winner of last year’s Iditarod, has won the 2015 Iditarod:

NOME — Behind a strong team of nine champion Alaska huskies, 28-year-old Dallas Seavey from Willow rolled under the burled arch on Front Street in this fabled gold mining town in the wee hours of Wednesday to seal the deal on a victory in the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and put the Seavey stamp solidly on the current era of Alaska dog mushing.

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Combined with his father’s win in 2013, Dallas’s win Wednesday gave the Seavey family title to victories in four straight Iditarods.

He gave full credit to the dogs.

“As long as you take care of the dog team and make good decisions, good things will happen,” he said. “We loved every second of it.”

Dallas’s coronation as the new king of the Iditarod had been clear since White Mountain, the penultimate checkpoint, on Monday. With only 75 miles left to the finish line and a lead of more than 4 hours over father Mitch, his nearest competitor, Dallas’s team could almost have walked to Nome and won.

But they trotted smartly over the Topkok Hills and along the famous beaches of golden sands to reach the finish line in an unofficial time of 8 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes and 6 seconds — about four hours off last year’s time on a course that ran mainly on the rivers of Alaska’s Interior. Seavey conceded it was flatter than the traditional route over the Alaska Range, but said it was every bit as challenging.

I haven’t covered the race as much this year as in previous years but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been following it here. We’ve been checking in on the race on a daily basis—the Internet coverage from Iditarod.com has been great. I may have more on this year’s race later. I just got a call that ComEd was turning the power off.

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    I just got a call that ComEd was turning the power off.

    That sounds alarming. Hope everything is okay.

  • Emergency maintenance, apparently.

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    At least the weather doesn’t look f completely miserable today, so there’s that, at least.

  • Guarneri Link

    Break up the dynasty……

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