Hi Boys and Girls, WOW! Has Nome ever been busy. 23 mushers have arrived in about 23 hours. Look at their times and see how close some of them were. This is was we call a race within a race. Congratulations to all the teams who have finished the race. Remember there’s still 40 teams on the trail. PHOTO OF THE DAY: DATE: March 16, 2016 TIME: 1:47 FINISHERS: 3. Aliy Zirkle 8 days 18 hours 42 minutes 4. Wade Marrs 8 days 20 hours 22 minutes 5. Peter Kaiser 8 days 20 hours 24 minutes 6. Joar Leifseth Ulsom 8 days 22 hours 12 minutes 7. Nicolas Petit 8 days 23 hours 30 minutes 8. Ralph Johannessen 8 days 23 hours 50 minutes 9. Jeff King 9 days 0 hours 0 minutes 10. Scott Smith 9 days 1 hour 33 minutes 11. Noah Burmeister 9 days 1 hour 39 minutes 12. Richie Diehl 9 days 2 hours 42 minutes 13. Robert Sorlie 9 days 3 hours 4 minutes 14. Paul Gebhardt 9 days 3 hours 10 minutes 15. Jessie Royer 9 days 3 hours 42 minutes 16. Ken Anderson 9 days 3 hours 45 minutes 17. John Baker 9 days 5 hours 45 minutes 18. Travis Beals 9 days 6 hours 42 minutes 19. Ray Redington Jr 9 days 8 hours 1 minute 20. Brent Sass 9 days 8 hours 8 minutes 21. Kelly Maixner 9 days 8 hours 38 minutes 22. Hugh Neff 9 days 9 hours 50 minutes 23 Sigrid Ekran 9 days 10 hours 37 minutes NEXT 5 MUSHERS: 24. Nathan Schroeder out of White Mountain 25. Linwood Fiedler out of White Mountain 26. Michelle Phillips out of White Mountain 27. Geir Idar Hjelvik out of White Mountain 28. Ketil Peitan out of White Mountain. Look for these mushers to arrive in Nome later today. RED LANTERN MUSHER: Ellen Halveson out of Nulato TOP ROOKIE: In 27th place is Geir Idar Hjelvik. SCRATCHED: None I’m off to check in on the rest of the mushers on the trail. I hope everyone makes it to Nome before the Banquet on Sunday night. I think they will. See you on the trail, Gypsy