Burmeister first to Nikolai checkpoint after marathon run from Rohn
Veteran musher Aaron Burmeister arrived in Nikolai at 7:38 a.m. Tuesday, hitting the 263-mile mark of the nearly 1,000-mile marathon with 712 miles to go. Burmeister left the Rohn checkpoint Monday evening at 6:22 p.m., just 23 minutes after then-leader Ryan Redington.
It took the longtime musher a whopping 13 hours, 16 minutes to make the 75-mile stretch from Rohn to Nikolai, where he beat Redington by 33 minutes.
Burmeister, who was born and raised in Nome, was shown by GPS tracking to be leading ahead of Redington and Richie Diehl. Burmeister is a veteran of 20 Iditarod races, starting with his rookie year in 1994, and has seven top-10 results, highlighted by a runner-up finish last year.
Current GPS tracking also showed Michelle Phillips, Dallas Seavey and Mille Porsild in a tight cluster from fourth through sixth between Rohn and Nikolai.
The top 10 is rounded out by Travis Beals, Jessie Holmes, Mitch Seavey and Paige Drobny.
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