A fan club welcomed Rookie of the Year Josi Thyr as much of the rest of the field took shape. Just a few rookie mushers remained on the trail.
Updated: 8 hours agoWally Robinson finishes his race in Nome in 11th place in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
“It felt really good,” he said of the embrace with his daughter. “Emily and I have been running dogs for a long time, since she was 3. She’s run her races, and she was happy for me to be able to run Iditarod. We have a pretty good connection through dogs and dog mushing.” As of six weeks ago, Robinson had no intention of running his second Iditarod. But when his friend Josh McNeal injured his shoulder at the Kuskokwim 300, Robinson agreed to step in and run McNeal’s team.“It’s probably the best way it could’ve happened for me because I tend to plan things out a lot and overthink things, and being just kind of tossed in it probably was the best for me,” he said. “I just had to run with it. And whatever happened, happens.
Robinson finished with 14 dogs, the biggest team to complete the race in 2024. He even took three members of his daughter’s team — Lake, Vickie and Urchin, the latter two acting as his lead dogs. He started with 16 but said he made a concerted effort to maintain as large of a team as he could.“That was the plan,” he said. “That was the whole point of me running Josh’s dogs, is to build that kennel for him.
“I was thinking about some of the people that no longer race that did when I started racing,” he said. “Thinking about those folks on different spots along the trail.”It was also a trip down memory lane in many respects, passing through some of the same stretches of trail and village communities. While many of her fellow college seniors at Embry-Riddle in Prescott, Arizona, were sunning in Cancun or Mazatlan, Thea Thyr was soaking in the Iditarod.
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