Biography
Lev Shvarts was born in the Ukraine and is now a proud US citizen. He grew up in the Boston area, got a BS in Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. He went back to work in Massachusetts, but while sitting in an air-conditioned office, he decided to leave a perfectly good career in engineering to pursue dog mushing. He moved to Willow, Alaska in 2011. “I am now a self-employed contractor and operate a short-run manufacturing and light fabrication / machine shop.” Lev is married to Melissa. His hobbies include tinkering, tools, and tattoos.
2014 Standings
| Checkpoint | Time In | Dogs In | Time Out | Dogs Out | Rest Time | Previous | Layover | Status | Distance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enroute Time | Speed (mph) | 8hr | 24hr | ||||||||
| Anchorage | 3/01 11:03:00 | 12 | |||||||||
| Willow | 3/02 14:58:00 | 16 | |||||||||
| Yentna Station | 3/02 18:55:00 | 16 | 3/02 22:03:00 | 16 | 3h 8m | 3h 57m | 10.63 | 42 | |||
| Skwentna | 3/03 00:59:00 | 16 | 3/03 06:22:00 | 16 | 5h 23m | 2h 56m | 10.23 | 30 | |||
| Finger Lake | 3/03 10:50:00 | 16 | 3/03 15:50:00 | 15 | 5h 0m | 4h 28m | 8.96 | 40 | |||
| Rainy Pass | 3/03 19:11:00 | 15 | 3/04 01:20:00 | 15 | 6h 9m | 3h 21m | 8.96 | 30 | |||
| Rohn | 3/04 08:23:00 | 15 | 7h 3m | 4.96 | Scratched | 35 | |||||
