DPSAY RR100 - Unofficial SKIJOR RESULTS!!

Due to very intelligent people driving wide wheeled vehicles all over the trail (what super fun!!) beyond the Aiseak Bridge the race finished a the Aiseak Bridge parking lot. This was GPS'd at 98.8 miles - "so quite near enough to 100 miles for me" said Jon Lucas.

In the skijoring (or "suicidal crazies" as a number of mushers dubbed them after the fun of the "happy hillock" trail section - aka: is this a cliff I am descending?) class, results as follows:

1st - hard training (and it showed) Gaetan Pierrard, in style in about 9 hours 36 mins; 4 dogs leg 1, 4 dogs leg 2; not really that closely followed by

2nd - Jon Lucas, slightly moist from all the luverly overflow he slipped into, in about 10 hours 12 mins; 4 dogs leg 1; 3 dogs leg 2; and some way off in the distance

3rd - Darryl Sheepway, encrusted in salt from a lot of hard ski-ing, in about 10 hours 52 mins; 4 dogs leg 1, 4 dogs leg2.

Hey, the positions are important (to those three) but the big picture is that a 100 mile skijor race can be a race, and it can be done at speed, those three's overall speeds varied from 9 to 10.2 mph for the whole 98.8 mile race. Well Done!

A huge thanks to the sponsors - Cash!! from Arctic Backhoe, Icy Waters Ltd, Whitehorse Motors, Klondike Dental Clinic, Radio from CKRW, and all the merchandise and food sponsors - thank you for believing in the race, and the DPSAY Board.

Massive thanks to all you volunteers, giving up your time to make this a safe, successful race and letting 21 dogsports enthusiasts show this race works, that skijorers and sleds can mix in mid-distance, and putting a mid-distance race back in Whitehorse. It can't happen without the volunteers - thank you again.

and finally, the DPSAY Board - strained, frayed, tired, but you did it! DPSAY's on the dogsports map! We hope we get some new Board members to add to the "blooded veterans" (that's how it feels!) and do it all again, for 200 miles, next year!