Positivity: Coronation complete --- Mackey wins Iditarod 37 <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/03/24/positivity-coronation-complete-mackey-wins-iditarod-37/>
Filed under: Positivity <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/positivity/> --- TBlumer @ 5:57 am From Alaska <http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10025108>: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 In the span of two years and three Iditarods, Lance Mackey has gone from miracle worker to the undisputed reigning king of The Last Great Race. Mackey won his third consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday, putting an exclamation point on mushing's latest dynasty. Only two other mushers have won three in a row --- Susan Butcher from 1986-88 and Doug Swingley 1999-2001. No one has won four straight. "I'm so proud to get through this," Mackey said. "This one was really, really smooth. I've never had a team work like this as a whole, come together in every situation. In every situation they seemed to excel." Mackey finished at 11:38 a.m. with an official time of 9 days, 21 hours, 38 minutes, 46 seconds. He still had 15 dogs in harness, dropping only one along the 1,000-mile trail. "I feel great, but I feel beat up a little bit," he said. "It was a pretty demanding trail since about Anvik." Gov. Sarah Palin called to congratulate Mackey shortly after he pulled in under Nome's burled arch. "We are considering this team the greatest in Iditarod history," Palin said. "You continue to give all of us hope. The adversity you have overcome, the challenges you have met --- believe me, it resonates across our nation and across our world." For Mackey --- a cancer survivor who came to prominence with an unprecedented double-double in the Yukon Quest and Iditarod in 2007 called the Mackey Miracle --- Wednesday's victory capped a dominating performance. ..... Go here <http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10025108> for the rest of the story. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
