March 12
Couldn’t wait for the 120 miles between Tanana and
Ruby to post an update. In what looked like good news to
me, Trent checked out of Tanana at 245 this morning with all 16 dogs. I was thinking that would be very key. Three or four guys on the team had a little ‘loose
caboose’ at the start and Trent was hopeful that they would run and eat their
way back in to form. It looks like 225 miles
in to the race they may have.
Just looked at the GPS tracker, and it looks like Trent ran a little over 5 hours, stopping at 800 AM after a run of 43 miles. Right in the 8 mph target range for him. He will likely rest 4+hours now, and do the same run-rest two more times to cover the ~ 80 miles to Ruby, probably getting in to Ruby very early morning on Friday 13th.
Trent also took his mandatory 8 hour rest in Tanana, so for he now has his 24 mandatory rest and the required 8 hour rest in White Mountain to come. It will be interesting to see if he decides to take his 24 in Ruby, Galena, or Husila at this point. Changing my guess from yesterday that it would be Ruby. I think he will rest 6-8 there and push on, let’s see.
Tim