26- The mushers depart, separated by the same intervals as their arrival at the second checkpoint.
27- The new route, which puts mushers on river ice for about 600 miles, could level the playing field.
28- Japan: Yama to Keikoku, 1995; Ronald Inouye, "Jujiro Wada: musher, long distance runner, and Fairbanks co-founder?
29- mushers keep a veterinary diary on the trail but are not required to have it signed by a veterinarian at each checkpoint.
30- mushers pack up to pounds ( kg) of equipment and provisions for themselves and their dogs to survive between checkpoints.
31- Norwegian musher Robert Sorlie, 56, is also one of the pre-race favorites, having competed in four Iditarods and won twice.
32- Winning times have gradually quickened, thanks to innovations in dog breeding and gear and stiffer competition among mushers.
33- This race was the first true Iditarod Race and was held in 1973, and attracted a field of 34 mushers, 22 of whom completed the race.
34- Butcher was the second musher to win four races, and the only musher to finish in either first or second place for five straight years.
35- The lead dog is crucial so mushers take particular care of these dogs.
36- There are many rules ensuring safe and fair conduct by the mushers.
37- mushers have to ride the brake most of the way down and use a snow hook for traction. 11.3733
38- Robb, who trained with Ken Davis, a competitive musher from Twig, Minnesota, focused on sprint racing.
39- From Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast, each team of 12 to 16 dogs and their musher cover over 1,[] 150 miles in 10 to 17 days.
40- The weather is perfect and we are now experienced enough mushers to be able to enjoy the high speeds without anxiety.
41- More exciting and exotic is a dash across the tundra bundled on a dogsled between a musher and his muscular mutts.
42- More exciting and exotic is a dash across the tundra bundled on a dogsled between a musher and his muscular mutts.
43- The rules of the race lay out certain regulations which each musher must abide by.
44- Researchers led by Daniel musher, MD, studied the records of all 170 patients hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia at a Texas Veterans Affairs medical center from 2001 to 2005.
45- Michael musher, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said light snow in the Midwest and light rain elsewhere around the country could cause only minor problems.
46- Another rookie musher drawing attention was Newton Marshall, the first Iditarod competitor from Jamaica.
47- The serum was transported from Anchorage to Nenana by train where the first musher picked up the serum.
48- Another rookie musher drawing attention was Newton Marshall, the first Iditarod competitor from Jamaica.
49- musher wannabes can drive their own team of Siberian huskies.
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