Winner: Mitch Seavey, 53, Sterling, Alaska
Noteworthy: Oldest musher ever to win Iditarod
Iditarods run, won: 19, 2
Like father, like son: Dallas Seavey, Mitch's son, became youngest-ever Iditarod champion in 2012
Iditarod family lineage: Three generations of racers (Dan, Mitch Dallas, Conway)
Time between Mitch Seavey, Aliy Zirkle into White Mountain: 13 minutes
Number of women who have twice finished Iditarod as runners up: 2, DeeDeeJonrowe and Aliy Zirkle
Oldest-ever Iditarod musher: Col. Norman D Vaughan, 86 years old
Total Iditarod 2013 prize money: $600,000
Who qualifies for purse winnings: First 30 Iditarod finishers
Number of lead changes in this year's race: 7
Race course: Southern Route
Number of checkpoints: 25
Longest distance between checkpoints: 85 miles, Kaltag-Unalakleet
Winner's purse in dollars: $50,400 plus new Dodge Ram 4x4 (estimated value: $40,000)
Iditarod champion Mitch Seavey's lead dog: Tanner
Famous lead dogs of 1925 Nome Serum Run: Balto, Togo
Musher's commands for 180-degree turns: Come gee! Come haw!
Warmest known temperature along the trail: 52 degrees between Iditarod-Shageluk checkpoints, March 9
Women who've won Iditarod: 2
Last female Iditarod champion: Susan Butcher, 1990, 11 days, 1 hour, 53 minutes, 23 seconds
Highest cumulative purse earnings by a musher, won by Jeff King, 1981-2013: $852,719.78
Approximate calories consumed by an Iditarod dog during a day of racing: 12,000
Iditarod 2013 rookie musher of the year: Joar Leifseth Ulsom
Planes flying with Iditarod Air Force: 25
FAA officials monitoring flight conditions and regulating air traffic along trail: 10 or more
Location of open-water overflow mushers had to fjord as temperatures climbed on the trail: Iditarod-Shageluk
Checkpoint famous for pies: Takotna
Dogs lost on the trail: 2
Dog fatalities on the trail (through March 13, 2013): Zero
Years since a dog died in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race: 4
Contact Eric Christopher Adams at eric(at)alaskadispatch.com
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