Another good day for Trent yesterday.   Yesterday at 5:48 AM he headed out of the Rohn checkpoint in 37th place.  Ran the 130 miles between Rohn and McGrath with one stop on the trail and going through the checkpoint in Nikolai arriving in McGrath at 1:15AM this morning.   The final 54 mile run from Nikolai to McGrath was done in 5 hours, 11 minutes at an average speed of 10.42 miles.  Trent was in 24th place as he checked in to McGrath and sits in 37th place at the moment as many mushers who came in to McGrath last night after Trent choose to continue on. 

Couple of interesting items

* Trent's 10.42 mph trip from from Nikolai to McGrath was as fast as anyone in the field, including front runners Martin Buser and Lance Mackay.   Trent's team can go fast on the run cycles. 

* The weather has been "balmy" and sunny.  Bright blue skies and 20's in the day and 0's and below at night have been ideal conditions for travel.   This is supposed to be the case for the next few days in the Central Range area.   Will the Yukon be as kind?

* It looks like everyone is positioning and taking their 24 hour mandatory rest.   The top 20 teams all arrived in Takotna between 10:00 last night and 2:00 this morning.   Takotna is a quick 18 miles from McGrath.  I just now see  on Iditarod Insider GPS Tracker, that Trent has pulled out of McGrath so he must not plan on taking his 24 hour rest at this point.  He will likely zoom through Taktona and probably be high on the leader board for the next day while the top teams are on 24 hour rest.   Maybe he goes all the way to Iditarod in the next day to take his 24 hour rest?