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Post-Race ReflectionsFriday, March 3, 2000 (9:45am PST)
"I've never been so delirious and so totally out of it, to the point where I was seeing things that I knew weren't there. I couldn't focus on the trail - it was horrible...."
Drooling to the Finish LineThursday, March 2, 2000 (9:55pm PST)
"Twenty-five below zero on the Kuskokwim River and I'm walking at a Death March snail pace. I'd wake up and I'd be just standing on the trail and then I'd walk some more, and then I'd fall asleep and I'd stand on the trail and then I'd walk some more. It just went like that from 1 o'clock to 6am...."
Death March to NikolaiThursday, March 2, 2000
"We've exited the black hole... it has been two death marches and one death march with a compass in our hand to get to Nikolai...."
Layover in Dismal SwampSaturday, February 26, 2000
"Well, the mystery is out of the bag, Dan Bull announced a mandatory layover is going to be on the edge of the Dismal Swamp, and the Dismal Swamp is well named, because it is a hell-hole of a flat place that the wind howls across...."
Pre-Race MysteriesFriday, February 25, 2000
"Thursday night the racers met at Chilkoot Charlie's Bar and went over pre-race socializing. Chilkoot Charlie's is pretty much the typical Alaska frontier bar: sawdust and peanut chips on the floor, bearded guys hunched over the bar, staring into their glass of beer..."