HOW EXCITING!!! IRAN AND I GOT THE SEE THE 1ST PLACE WINNER, LANCE MACKEY AND HIS AWESOME TEAM OF DOGS, THE 2010 "GREATEST RACE IN ALASKA" ...THE IDITAROD! 1049 MILES!! ACTUALLY I WAS READING TODAY THAT THESE MUSHERS WENT 1100 MILES! THE IDITAROD IS TO COMMEMORATE THOSE AWESOME MUSHERS WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES IN A RELAY OF DOG TEAMS IN 1925 WHOM DELIVERED DIPHTHERIA SERUM FROM ANCHORAGE TO NOME WHEN THERE WAS AN OUTBREAK AND SERUM COULD NOT BE REACHED TO NOME BY ANY OTHER WAY DUE TO WEATHER---JUST GIVES ME CHILLS! SO COOL! FRONT STREET IN NOME WAS LINED WITH HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN THE SUB ZERO TEMPERATURE AS WE ALL CHEARED LANCE MACKEY ON AS HE HERROICALLY RACED IN! I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT HE WOULD EVEN HAVE THE STRENGTH TO DO ALL THE INTERVIEWING AND ALL THE TV CREWS THAT WERE THERE TO GET HIM ON CAMERA. LEAVE THE POOR FROST BITTEN, "DOG TIRED" MAN ALONE. AFTER BEING IN -30 DEGREE WINDY WEATHER GETTING NO SLEEP FOR DAYS...YOU WOULD THINK HE WOULD OF BEEN A GROUCH BUT HE WAS A CHARMING AS COULD BE! THERE WERE LIKE 72 MUSHERS WHO STARTED THE RACE MARCH 6TH IN ANCHORAGE, 17 HAVE SCRATCHED AND I AM NOT SURE HOW MANY CAME IN TODAY. EVERY TIME A MUSHER IS 10 MINUTES OUT, NO MATTER WHAT THE TIME, THE NOON WHISTLE BLOWS AND ANYONE WHOM IS ABLE IS SUPPOSED TO RACE DOWN TO FRONT STREET TO GREET THEM! EACH MUSHER IS IMPORTANT TO NOME AND THE TRADITION HAS BEEN WHEN THE LAST MUSHER COMES IN HE/SHE IS TO BRING THE RED LANTERN ACROSS THE FINISH LINE...THAT WAY EVERYONE KNOWS ALL THE MUSHERS MADE IT SAFELY!
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