MARCH 11, 2017

DAY 5 OF THE IDITAROD

Top mushers into HUSLIA in order: temperature in HUSLIA 23 degrees
MITCH SEAVEY
NICOLAS PETIT
JESSIE ROYER
MICHELLE PHILLIPS
RALPH JOHANNESSEN
JASON MACKEY

DALLAS SEAVEY is in 12th position with a 24 layover finished
DEEDEE JONROWE in 45th position
ELLEN HALVERSEN now last and in RUBY with 10 others
            It took ELLEN 34 hours to go from TANANA to RUBY a distance of 119 miles
ALIY ZIRKLE is on her way to HUSLIA after her 24 hour layover.

Many drowsy mushers now. One fell asleep eating cheese, another while putting on his
mittens and a third tumbled off his sled, losing his dog team. So thats why JEFF KING
leashes himself to his sled.

WADE MARRS hustles out of HUSLIA to KOYUKUK. He owns a 34 min lead over DALLAS SEAVEY and a 2 hour lead over JOAR ULSOM and a 3 hour lead over MITCH SEAVEY
WADE will take his 8 hour break in a few hours.

MARK SELLAND scratched in RUBY due to the safety and welfare of his race tem. He left
RUBY at 9:27 AM then came back to RUBY at 3:15 PM and then scratched.

ALIY ZIRKLE was in 9th place
JASON MACKEY in 16th
MARTIN BUSER in 18th
HUGH NEFF in 24th
HANS GATT in 26th

To give you some perspective of why DALLAS is ahead of ELLEN:
ELLEN HALVERSEN is running at a speed of 0.2 with an average speed of 6.7MPH. She  is at mile 396
DALLAS SEAVEY running at 9.6MPH with an average of 8.0 MPH. He is at mile 553

Top guys took average 15hours from GALENA to HUSLIA