Team #14 Crosses the Finish Line
Pro-class Team #14 McKenna, Quam cross the Fairbanks Finish Line at 12:41:58!
Our thanks to the exhausted HQ Volunteers who will continue to keep us up to date through the day, and into the night as the remaining Teams finish the longest, toughest snowmobile race in the world.
We are the Dog!
Our thanks to the exhausted HQ Volunteers who will continue to keep us up to date through the day, and into the night as the remaining Teams finish the longest, toughest snowmobile race in the world.
We are the Dog!
posted by Tesoro Iron Dog Blog at 2/16/2008 01:07:00 PM
66 Comments:
Congratulations McKenna and Quam!
It's gonna be close....the next couples teams coming in as far as where they place overall!!!
if team 5 does this last run in under 42mins 7 secs theyll beat team 11.....
Good showing for Rookie team #5 way to go Wold/Spence!!
I think Team #10 is rolling across the line now!
#22 has dropped to 4th now, in another 20ish minutes and they'll be in 5th....come on guys
Who just came across the line on the cam?
must be #5
anyones guess without updates, 5,22,31 or 9????
Way 2 go TEAM #4 U guys rock. Lets hear it 4 da boyz from the interior.
Is #22 walking into Fairbanks? Got to be a story here ...
any idea where #20 is
congrats to the interior guys pete&tyler, good riding! also to mckenna&qualm!
Good job Jacob and Dan!!!#31Watch out, Jacob is going to be tough for the next 20 years!!!!
Fat Boy
Congrats Tyler and Pete, thanks for the very exciting race...Fastest boys on the Yukon...
Way to go team #11. I knew you could do it!
Good job Stanley...
Congratulations to all! Please don't forget to send us any pictures you may have gotten at the final checkpoints - send them to photos@irondog.org
Congratulations to Team 14.
Also, thanks to all of the volunteer and HQ.
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Greg
Congratulations Wayne and Steve, you did it!!! We look forward to hearing all about the race the next time we see you :)
Your california family.
Big congrats to team #9! Amazing finish, way to stick with it. Next year should be awesome!!!!!
I sure wish somebody would give us an update on Team 20.
Thank-you
who just finished?!?
Congrats team 18!!! GO CAT!!!
Zugger Shocks helper
Lets keep the blogging updates until the last solo riders get across the line,Tyson Team 8 and Daniel Team 1!
I'm thinking team 19 in to the finish line @ 4:06...
Hang in there #28, we are cheering you on to the finish.
Congratulations Team #19! Wow!
Good job Jim and Tre' we are rooting you on!! :)
team 28 just finished... good job all finishers...better luck next year to all those not finishing.
so long ID 2008. Thanks HQ for keeping us informed. See ya in 09.
Right on Peter Demoski and Tyler Huntington. You make the Interior people proud!!
Who is the fastest Dude now? May not be the first, but we have a new fastest.
Tyson in FAI as per the gps at 5:11 to bad what happened to Tyler out of Tanana. Thought the reason for the scratch was the machines sorry to hear it was one of the riders. I'm sure Tyson is with his family and as always a big smile no mater how bad things might have been.
A lesson to all is to keep smiling as Tyson has shown a lot of us.
Peter and Tyler had the second fastest time from Tanana to Fairbanks today. You Rock Team #4,Demoski, Huntington!!!! Also the fastest rookie team from Tanana to Fairbanks was team #26 Huntington, Pelkola. We are proud of you, our own Yukon River boyz- way to rep.
Just watching this race was exciting and looking forward to seeing more of our Yukon River boyz out there next year.
Thank you all of the volunteers in the rural communities who made this race possible with the time keeping, places to stay, home cooked meals and great hospitality in each village. All of you people in the villages rock and you can pat yourselves on the back for a job well done. It was great to hear from Booba, David, Myron, Edgar, Ed, Billy H. Cynthia and many others that are numerous to name but who contributed a lot to this race. Updates from the Galena gurlz, fat boy, the sweetsirs, and many more people that were so much help to us at the hq. Take care and God bless you all with a great spring.
Dragonfly
Thank you dragonfly for all your updates on Daniel, Team 1's lonely rider. Hope he makes it safely into Fairbanks soon.
Yeah he will be alright - he knows what to do and have confidence that he will be alright - will go back to the hq after awhile and check on his status. Taking a break at home for awhile from hq. He talked to the guyz at the hq and they told him to call as he gets closer to fai.
Just talked to Daniels family in Fairbanks. They will call when he gets in. They are expecting him any minute. To all who gave updates, THANKS
wonder if that's daniel on the web cam now??? 21:24:10
gone now..... probably not him
Family just called. Daniel is in Fairbanks. Wildwood and Dragonfly thanks for helping keep track of him. That should be the last of the singles I think.
See you next year.
2008 was a great race, thank you all volunteers and HQ. I'm glad Daniel made it, too bad it couldn't be marked as a Finish. Thanks for all the updates, I'm looking forward to next year.
It was funny I went back over to look for Dan and I wasn't even there for about ten minutes and he walks in looking tired but glad to be there. So they got him to a table to enjoy the rest of the evening at the banquet. I am just glad that he made it in and happy for his family that he was safe.
Take care all and God bless,
signing out till next year,
Dragonfly
how was the banquet? tell us the details
Good night and see you next year with the exception that I will see how I can help instead of complain. Great race even though my team didn't win but still great. I would like to see the iditarod break their own trail and no air support. lol. G N and good year.
No air support please for next year make all men equally run the race.
Don't know if anyone is still there to read this but the factories have learned a lot about their machines over the years because of this race. I look forward to the day that their machines can be built as though as the men that ride them.
41 started 16 finished. Tough riders all of them no matter what sleds they were on. I'm proud and I hope everyone else is too. No matter whom thier favorite team was.
See you next year.
Good job Tyson of #8. You should find another riding partner. this Tyler kid wipes out way too much & talks too much crap. Isn't this like the 2nd time in 3 years he's crashed. Maybe he needs to join the trail class or just retire. It's put up or shut up kid. Teams 18 & 5 congrats -- you did GREAT!! Be safe everyone & best wishes in everything you do.
awesome job team #9
Conrats to team #11!
1st Ski-Doo team in, and fasest time from Tanana to Fairbanks- on TNT 500SS's none the less!
the jaholas were blocking the trail and would not let guys pass and when a racer went up to help tim got in his face and hollered at him, talk about piss poor sportsmanship.
Life is pretty boring without the Iron Dog Blog - thanks to all that updated us on racers. It was one tough race. Want to shout out a big Yahoo for all the finishers. Especially the Idaho #19 - you were amazing. Signed Laclede Speed
Tyson Johnson and Johnny Bahnke III next year as a team.
Ski-Doo's best chance of victory.
Andrew Here from team 20. Friday night 10 miles out of Ruby James blew a piston, towed back to ruby and had some parts flown in on Saturday. but as we were tearing it down to put a new piston in, we notice the he had a hole in the crank case. leading us to scratch. almost there...but yet so far...we'll be back next Year!!!
Team 20
Andrew Zwink/James Spikes
Team 20...you should join the trail class...You boys set a record for slowest time ever..engines blow all the time, its kinda like Olstad wrecking and blowing his engine..but you dont hear him bitchin...I think that race seperated the men from the boys, expecially the last 2 days..you guys are still little boys...
WoW! To Anonymous @ 7:13...i don't think that Team 20 was complaining. They were just giving us an update. Cut them a little slack...they blow a piston without any layover left or a plane flying cover...what do you expect them to do?!?
To Team 20. Thanks for the update. I enjoyed meeting you in Ruby and was curious to know how things turned out. I made it into Fairbanks without any major trouble and caught the tail end of the banquet. Good luck next year!
Daniel P.
Team #1
I hope team #11 Brad Reich and Johnny Bahnke race as a team in 09. Way to go team #11. I cheered for you all the way from Pt. Hope.
To Anonymous @ 7:13.... why dont you try and race! I'm sure team 20 was learning the trail so they can do better next year. they weren't the slowest team ether..... team 32 was...after Ruby going northbound all the teams behind them scratched... they were the only team that kept going! and on the trail from Nome to Ruby southbound they were making up lots of time!! So give these young men a break! Because they could beat you any day!
Good job team 20, you guys made it farther then alot of guys wished they can. Next time chose more of a reliable snowmachine eh?(not any doo, ski doo and reliability doesn't belong in the same page) Don't let anyone drag you down, you guys have kahunas to even enter this race and making it that far.
Hey Check it out Lance Mackey is setting a faster time on the Iditarod then Andrew Zwink and James Spikes did on the Irondog..Give it up KIDS!
NOT NICE!!!
We'll just have to see what happens next year with those kids, hell they made it pretty far!
I don't usually get to involved with the people that have no idea about what they are talking about, but I think this time it deserves a comment. This is to address the person that wants to keep slamming the team of Zwink and Spikes. I had the pleasure of running this race with them and talking to them several times along the way. They showed great character and determination and stuck to their plan of crossing the finish line in Fairbanks and finish the greatest race on earth. If not for the unfortunate mechanical failure of there engine they too would have been labled vetrans for next years race. But at the end of the day that is all it really is a "label". Any man or woman that attempts to race the "longest toughest race" and give it the 110% that it takes to make at far as they did regardless of how long it took deserves the respect of the participants and the fans of this race. So I suppose if they would have finished you would have de-graded them for being the slowest. Except that would have been saved for me and my partner team #32. As we where the "slowest" team to finish this amazing race and they where ahead of us at the time they broke. So until you step up to the plate and find the sponsors put it the endless hours of preperation and train 12 months to get ready for this race I believe your comments should be kept to your self. But then again you don't even have what it takes to sign your name to the end of your meaningless comments. Thank you all for letting me and my partner and many others live there dream of racing the "longest toughest race on earth" Chris Downs Team #32.
Thanks Chris #32 for the positive input. As the man that wrote the story said - To finish the Iron Dog is to win.
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