Mitch Seavey wins Iditarod in record time
Mitch Seavey made history Tuesday afternoon, becoming the oldest and the fastest musher to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
The win was Seavey’s third in the past 13 years. The musher whose record he beat? His son, Dallas, who won last year’s race.
Seavey, 57, reached Nome in 8 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes, 13 seconds, nearly eight hours faster his son’s 2016 time.
The Seavey’s are Iditarod royalty, having won the past six races.
After arriving in Nome, Seavey reportedly thanked each of the 11 dogs on his team with a frozen snack.
“[The dogs] hit their peak, they hit their speed, and that’s what they do,” Seavey told the AP at the finish line. “They trusted me to stop them when they needed to stop and feed them and I did that, and they gave me all they could.”
