Iditablog

Josh Rogers’ Iditablog has become one of my favorite sources of detailed information and perspective on the race. He’s clearly an avid fan and a better-than-average blogger, evidenced by this entry from earlier today:

I’m still curious whats going to happen between Mackey and King, in Unalakleet yesterday Lance spoke to reporters about how he just wanted to do well, how he was already thinking about next year’s team, and if you go back to the beginning of the race in Anchorage Mackey always talked about wanting to have a good showing in the All Alaska Sweepstakes over winning his second Iditarod. Compare that to King - he was the first into Unalakleet and immediately mentioned going onto winning his fifth Iditarod this year, bragged on his team, and had a pretty upbeat attitude. Last year after coming into Unalakleet Jeff King sounded like Mackey did this year, he told me about how if he didn’t win, he hoped Lance would because it was “such a magical story”. Perhaps Mackey’s quotes this year were taken out of context when I read them, he’s holding King back pretty well right now…..but Nome isn’t just right around the corner either.

I’ve added Josh’s Iditablog to my Good Links in the sidebar.