ID: Wednesday Evening - Ruby

Aliy and her Red Team mates pulled into Ruby at 7.17 this evening in 5th position. The Analytics View of the tracker shows that they stopped to camp for about 5.5 hours along the way.

There is an Insider video (Jeff on the Trail to Ruby) of the team passing a resting Jeff King and you can see the team "on by", it's cool to see them just run past the sleeping team and neither team trying to interfere with the other.


Screen shots from Insider video

Aliy was interviewed before leaving Tanana and she was talking about the need to be cautious in the cold weather combined with the long runs between checkpoints. She described how her dogs are "cold wary" as they had just been through the cold Quest so she was not going to push them at this early stage of the race.

Meanwhile, Allen and the Black Team are about 50 miles outside Ruby. They camped for about four hours on the trail. On the Analytics View you can see the run/rest pattern so far for the Black Team - all the small "blips" you see are when he stops to snack the dogs.