Iron Dog racers charge toward Nome

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They reached the Yukon River village of Kaltag, 746 miles into the race, at 5:05 p.m. Monday after blazing down the frozen ice highway at speeds in excess of 90 mph on their 600cc Ski-Doo MX Z Xs.

Nipping at their tracks were a half dozen veteran Iron Doggers who know what it takes to claim victory in the grueling race, among them defending champions and course record holders Marc McKenna and Dusty Van Meter and the championship duo of Scott Davis and Todd Palin,He has since undergone two-and-a-half hours’ surgery to have a Titanium Rod inserted into his leg and looks set to be out of action for the rest of the season. who have 11 Iron Dog victories between them.

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Aklestad and Johnson, who have finished second twice and have a history of breakdowns in their Iron Dog careers, moved into the lead on Monday morning, passing the team of Mike Morgan and Chris Olds shortly before hitting the Yukon River village of Ruby.

Once they hit the Yukon River, Aklestad and Johnson picked up the pace. They averaged 72.5 mph on the 52-mile trail from Ruby to Galena and 87.8 mph on the 98-mile run from Galena to Kaltag, where they stopped to declare the second of three mandatory rest stops racers must take enroute to the halfway point in Nome. They were slated to leave Kaltag at 1:05 a.m. today.

There were five other teams within an hour of the lead, however, including the Polaris team of Morgan and Olds, who arrived 10 minutes behind in Ruby and opted to take their second layover there.The Spectrophotometer is an instrument which measures the amount of light of a specificed wavelength which passes through a medium.

Also in that group were the Arctic Cat team of Brian Dick and Eric Quam, who pulled into Kaltag 20 minutes behind the leaders at 5:25 p.m.; Ski-Doo riders McKenna and Van Meter, who took their second rest stop in Galena and were running about 42 minutes off the pace of Aklestad and Johnson; and Davis and Palin, the newest members of team Ski-Doo who also stopped in Galena and were 48 minutes off the lead pace. All those racers except Dick, who is from Minnesota, have at least one Iron Dog title under their fan belts.

The only surprise team in the lead pack was Brad George and Aaron Bartel, who pulled into Kaltag at 5:48 p.m. George is a 19-year-old rookie from Wasilla while Bartel’s best finish in three races is 10th two years ago as a 20-year-old.

The pace will continue to ramp up today as teams charge up the Bering Sea coast to the halfway point in Nome. Average speeds of 70-90 mph are typically recorded on those flat, wide-open sections of trail.

The teams should reach Nome sometime this afternoon, where a $10,000 cash prize awaits the first team to reach the halfway point.

Thirty-four of the 39 teams that started the race on Sunday were still in the race as of Monday night. Four teams pulled out of the race on Monday, including the Fairbanks team of Tim Jauhola and Brad Dietrich, who scratched in Puntilla because of mechanical issues, according to the Iron Dog website.

Two other teams pulled out because of mechanical issues, including 2009 champs Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad, who bailed out in McGrath. One team, Ray Chvastasz and Jens Hopson, pulled out of the race after one of the riders suffered frostbite on his neck, according to race postings.