It’s that time again, and we have a mixed bag from the Great Land today. Starting things off right, we have the results of that great Alaskan tradition, the Iditarod, where musher Dallas Seavey won a historic sixth first-place finish. He is now the most successful Iditarod musher in the event’s history and an Alaskan hero.
Talkeetna’s Seavey won his latest Iditarod title Tuesday in Nome, breaking a record he shared with race icon Rick Swenson.
Seavey crossed under the famous Burled Arch on Nome’s Front Street at 5:16 p.m. Tuesday to win the 52nd edition of the Last Great Race with 10 dogs in harness, and now stands alone with the most wins in Iditarod history.
He clocked in with a race-winning time of 9 days, 2 hours, 16 minutes, and 8 seconds.
“This one was supposed to be hard,” Seavey told Iditarod announcer Greg Heister shortly after crossing the finish line. “It had to…
