Dog Sled Racing, Part 4: Final thoughts

Some final thoughts and reminders for you all about the Iditarod:

1) It starts TOMORROW in Anchorage at 10am ADT, but where to watch it????

For those of you out of state, it's streaming live at the iditarod homepage. You can also follow from the Anchorage Daily News.

It will also be showing on Alaska's Superstation (ABC) live as well. If you really can't watch tomorrow, OLN will be showing it starting on 4/2. I can't wait to see Al Trautwig cover the Iditarod after his odd coverage of the Tour last year!

If you do catch the start, Frank and I will be there...I will try to wave maniacally behind Al Trautwig if I can :).

2) Some people to watch (i.e. the Bob Costas Section):
--Team Norway, a group of Norwegians with a team type of plan.
--Martin Buser lost half of one of his fingers on Tuesday. Wife gets suspicious after husband and son go to doctor to "get stitches", and when Martin concedes that the finger might need more than stitches, she asks them to go to Anchorage instead. Now, if you were going to drive 1,100 miles on a dog sled in a few days and cut off your finger, would you not want to be realistic about cutting off your finger and go to the best hospital possible? Double-Duh. However, he does think this is a good omen, since big things always happen to him before he does really well in the race. We'll see...
--Jessica Hendricks could be a threat this year.
--Rachael Scdoris is legally blind and will be running the race -- the first legally blind musher to do so!

In other racing news, cycling season is kicking up! This week is Paris-Nice, and guess who will be there? Of course, Discovery Channel including Lance Armstrong! It will be on OLN all weekend, so go ahead and check it out!