Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader extends his hearty congratulations to Jeff King, who just won his fourth Iditarod dog-sled race.

Your Maximum Leader didn’t realize that the Iditarod has only been around since 1973. He had always assumed that it had been around since the 1930s at least. He seemed to remember reading somewhere that the race was to commemorate the rush of medicine from Anchorage to Nome in the 1920’s to fight an epidemic. But he assumed that the race was older than it was.

Your Maximum Leader just looked up the official Iditarod site, which is appropriately www.iditarod.com. The history of the race is here. You can look here for complete standings on the race. (Some competitors will not reach Nome for a few more days…)

Very cool stuff…

Carry on.