It’s just extremely frustrating and disappointing decision by the ITC. Hopefully the mushers getting pulled (Q especially) know how many people are upset on their behalf and supporting them at what I’m sure is a very difficult time emotionally and physically.
Well, I'm that too. That part will get bigger as the anger fades a bit. It's just hard knowing Q was dealing with the loss of his mom and then watching that team come together and start putting in good runs from Kaltag on down. They were finding their rhythm and it was beautiful to see. ❤️
Yeah, and she was. She had three really good runs from Grayling back to Grayling. Fast, consistent. I mean, a race this damn long should have room for teams coming together. Is the 12 hours she was behind really make or break? Somehow I find it hard to swallow, but their call I guess.
Ultimately the Iditarod is a long and demanding race, if they want enough people to continue to enter to make it viable, they need to figure out a way to allow those people who aren’t out to win time to finish. And they also probably need a definition of non-competitive (2/2)
I am sad for them. My frustration is tempered some by the fact that many of the people working the checkpoints are volunteers & how long to make them stay is a reasonable question (1/2)
Lots of us making a similar call after this. If what they want is a strictly local operation with a dozen or so regulars, that's what they'll get. Plenty of other races for the rest of the world to get invested in.
There are! Many great ones from AK to MI to Norway and many in between. Not one of those other great races has a 700k payroll with some pretty well paid employees running race into the ground though.
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