Yukon King here, lead dog in three prior Iditarod's, with todays RRRRace RRRReport. Make no mistake, we epitomize the endurance athlete--we pee on your Ironman Races! Bred, trained, special diets, and if we show promise, sometimes they don't cut our nuts off! Yes, I know these races seem a little hard on the humans, special clothes, hats, gloves, diets, etc. just to survive, and, yes, sometimes we dogs make a miscalculation and they wind up getting rolled-over down an embankment with a few broken bones, or drowned in a frigid pond, but you can tell by the look on their faces that they love it. In fact, they are bred for it--many of these humans are second and third generation mushers.

Anyhowl--(get it???)--here are some more pictures taken as the race unfolds.

Here Blind musher Rachael Scordis leaves the Willow Restart line as the last musher to leave. This is not a joke, and I must admit I am not exactly sure how this works.



Here are some of my buddies. It might look like they are a little disorganized, but they are just playing "Cats-in-the-Cradle". Drives the human's heart rate up about 20 beats, then we form up and off we go!



Here are a couple of my buddies with one of the Women Mushers--Got room in the Hottie Thread?



Sometimes we show our appreciation and offer encouragement--



That's all for now. See you tomorrow!