In Unalakleet earlier today, Dallas Seavey talked to reporters about trail mishaps, his dogs and whether he thinks he can catch up to Iditarod leader Brent Sass. Take a listen:
I think there is for some. But I think that’s what I was speaking to earlier. We feel this urge to catch up. So we look at the schedule, we look at the next 24 hours and say, ‘Oh, I can do this crazy thing to catch up.’ Well, great. You caught up. But what does that do you? You’re at the wrong time, you still got 200 miles to go. And now you have a slow dog team.
So White Mountain is not the finish. The finish is the finish. That’s another common mistake is people feel like they have to catch up. I would rather be in White Mountain and still be 20 or 30 minutes behind but have a stronger team. So we’re balancing a number of factors. One is closing the gap. But the other one is to make sure that if and when we do catch up, we have the stronger team. Because catching up only means that you’re now in a foot race.
I feel like Murphy’s law is like a lost little puppy just following me around. That’s a little bit annoying. But other than that, we’re having fun and things are actually going remarkably well.Dumb and Dumber. [laughter] The white one is Pecos. He’s actually one of the big surprises. Well not surprises, but most improved — let’s call him that. He finished with me last year, but was a leader that did well early in the race – would do great in the team – but wasn’t a leader at the end of the race.
He’s still terrible at finding the trail though [laughter]. Coming here, he was just all over the place. He’s just looking at the birds in the sky and just runs right off the end of the trail. I’m like, ‘Dude, pay attention!’ The other one is Titan and he’s just a three year old. In fact, the swing dog is his father. The other swing dog is his uncle. And those are my main two leaders, Prophet and North, and both of them were with me last year. And this is Titan’s first time.
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