{"id":21242,"date":"2017-03-13T20:58:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/mitch-seavey-leads-iditarod-reaches-bering-sea-village\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T03:58:27","slug":"mitch-seavey-leads-iditarod-reaches-bering-sea-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/mitch-seavey-leads-iditarod-reaches-bering-sea-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Seavey leads Iditarod, reaches Bering Sea village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; Race leader and two-time champion Mitch Seavey has reached the village of Koyuk (KOY-uk) in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.<\/p>\n<p>The Seward, Alaska musher arrived at 7:24 a.m. Monday with 12 dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Koyuk is on Norton Sound on Alaska&rsquo;s Bering Sea Coast. The village is 171 miles from the finish line in Nome.<\/p>\n<p>Seavey rested in Shaktoolik for five hours and 10 minutes. He left Shaktoolik (shak-TOO-lik) at 2:14 a.m. and covered the 58-mile leg to Koyuk in five hours, 10 minutes, averaging nearly 9.7 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Seavey&rsquo;s son and last year&rsquo;s champion, Dallas Seavey, is in second place. He reached Shaktoolik at 1:35 a.m. Monday, rested 17 minutes and left at 1:52 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Norway&rsquo;s Joar Lefseth Ulsom and Nicolas Petit of Girdwood, Alaska, also have left Shaktoolik for Koyuk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; Race leader and two-time champion Mitch Seavey has reached the village of Koyuk (KOY-uk) in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The Seward, Alaska musher arrived at 7:24 a.m. Monday with 12 dogs. Koyuk is on Norton Sound on Alaska&rsquo;s Bering Sea Coast. The village is 171 miles from the finish line in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21242"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}