
Biography
Yuka Honda, 42, was born and raised in Niigata, Japan. She attended the university in Japan, studying Agriculture Physics. In 1998, she moved to the North West Territory, Canada, where she was a handler for Grant Beck. After watching the Iditarod on television the following year, she began to dream of running the Iditarod. She moved to Alaska in 2002 and, in 2009, back to Canada to start her own kennel, this time to the Yukon Territory. Ginga Express Kennel is now home to 26 dogs. “They are my family,” says Yuka. She completed the Yukon Quest in 2012. For the last three years she has worked as a janitor.
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2015 Standings
Checkpoint | Time In | Dogs In | Time Out | Dogs Out | Rest Time | Previous | Layover | Status | Distance | ||
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Anchorage | 3/07 12:07:00 | 12 | |||||||||
Fairbanks | 3/09 11:56:00 | 16 | |||||||||
Nenana | 3/09 17:39:00 | 16 | 3/10 00:14:00 | 16 | 6h 35m | 5h 43m | 10.50 | 60 | |||
Manley Hot Springs | 3/10 13:14:00 | 16 | 3/10 19:38:00 | 16 | 6h 24m | 13h 0m | 6.92 | 90 | |||
Tanana | 3/11 08:39:00 | 16 | 3/11 15:37:00 | 15 | 6h 58m | 13h 1m | 5.07 | 66 | |||
Ruby | 3/12 18:37:00 | 15 | 3/13 19:15:00 | 14 | 24h 38m | 27h 0m | 4.41 | ![]() |
119 | ||
Galena | 3/14 02:14:00 | 14 | 3/14 10:56:00 | 11 | 8h 42m | 6h 59m | 7.16 | ![]() |
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50 | |
Huslia | 3/15 04:23:00 | 11 | 3/15 11:50:00 | 11 | 7h 27m | 17h 27m | 4.70 | ![]() |
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82 | |
Koyukuk | 3/16 06:47:00 | 11 | 3/16 13:25:00 | 11 | 6h 38m | 18h 57m | 4.54 | ![]() |
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86 | |
Nulato | 3/16 16:27:00 | 11 | 3/16 19:55:00 | 11 | 3h 28m | 3h 2m | 7.25 | ![]() |
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22 | |
Kaltag | 3/17 02:10:00 | 11 | 3/17 11:25:00 | 11 | 9h 15m | 6h 15m | 7.52 | ![]() |
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47 | |
Unalakleet | 3/18 04:35:00 | 11 | 3/18 12:41:00 | 10 | 8h 6m | 17h 10m | 4.95 | ![]() |
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85 | |
Shaktoolik | 3/18 20:02:00 | 10 | 3/19 10:17:00 | 10 | 14h 15m | 7h 21m | 5.44 | ![]() |
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40 | |
Koyuk | 3/19 19:58:00 | 10 | 3/20 04:03:00 | 10 | 8h 5m | 9h 41m | 5.16 | ![]() |
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50 | |
Elim | 3/20 11:10:00 | 10 | 3/20 17:45:00 | 10 | 6h 35m | 7h 7m | 6.74 | ![]() |
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48 | |
White Mountain | 3/21 01:08:00 | 10 | 3/21 09:10:00 | 10 | 8h 2m | 7h 23m | 6.23 | ![]() |
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46 | |
Safety | 3/21 15:44:00 | 10 | 3/21 15:48:00 | 10 | 0h 4m | 6h 34m | 8.38 | ![]() |
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55 | |
Nome | 3/21 18:32:55 | 10 | 2h 44m | 8.05 | ![]() |
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22 |