Not photo-related, but you guys might get a kick out of this.

[Blue_In_AK]

Photo groupies who have been here a while will remember Aliy Zirkle from my Iditarod pics. She finished second the past three years and came in fifth this year. This story cracks me up.



http://www.adn.com/article/20150320/post-race-arm-wrestling-match-leaves-fan-broken-bone-and-musher-zirkle-mortified

NOME -- There was a sickening pop, followed by an eerie silence as the crowd inside Breakers Bar realized what they’d witnessed: Aliy Zirkle had just broken some woman's arm.

Grace Liu learned a painful lesson about tangling with mushers Wednesday night in Nome when Zirkle, a 45-year-old sled dog racing superstar from Two Rivers, snapped the California lawyer’s arm like a piece of driftwood during an arm-wrestling match contested just hours after the 15-time Iditarod finisher guided her team to a fifth-place finish in the 2015 Iditarod.

“Everyone gasped,” said Liu, a 36-year-old patent lawyer from Fresno. “And you know it takes a lot to quiet a bar in Nome.”

Zirkle said it was her first arm-wrestling contest. And likely her last.

“God, I feel bad,” she said Friday.

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Aliy is a very kind person, always upbeat and smiling. I know she must feel awful about this, but I remember how impressed I was by her biceps the first time I saw her out of her cold weather clothes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow, that's one hell of a story, my dear Blue!

At first, I'd thought that Aliy had gotten in a fight! I'm glad it wasn't that.

But still.

I guess she's strong!

[Hoppy]

2. -- may also have been osteo in the unfortunate woman's bones.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Could very well have been that. Yikes.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Holy cow! Arm wrestling hours after finishing

the Iditarod....and broke an arm. That kind of strength and stamina are downright scary. I am sure she feels terrible.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I'm sure she does, too.

She's a very nice woman, much loved for her positive attitude and graciousness.