Tunheim first from Sirbma

Ralph Johannessen, from Hardangervidda in the south of Norway, left as number two about 45 minutes after Tunheim. He spent only nine minutes at the checkpoint. Tore Bergby, from Luksefjell, left as number three after about an hour break. Bergby is ca. one and a half hour behind Harald Tunheim on the way to levajok. Tore Bergby and Harald Tunheim have kept the same speed on the trail. Ralph Johannessen arrived the checkpoint called Sirbma 20 minutes later.

Harald Tunheim took out one dog at Sirbma and left with eight dogs. Ralph Johannessen left 45 minutes after with seven dogs in his team. Tore Bergby was third musher out an hour and a half after Tunheim with nine dogs in his team. Kjell Brennodden who arrived as number two to Sirbma is taking a longer break and has not left yet.

Ridiculously good
According to Jakob Svarre, Harald Tunheim's handler, Tunheim's dogs looked så bikkjene til Tunheim ridiculously good. 

- They looked exactly as good as we hoped. They were happy dogs. They kept full speed and it was no problem to go straight through, Svarre says. Also other people commented on the fact that Tunheim's dogs looked dangerously fit.

Kjell Brennodden, from Folldal, arrived the checkpoint only a few hundred meters behind Tunheim. Brennodden will have to take a longer rest in Sirbma, as he took very little rest in Varangerbotn. Accordig to Jakob Svarre also Brennodden's dogs looked good.

- They were not very tired. Nothing is settled yet, Svarre says.

what is likely to happen now is that Harald will go on for a while and then stop to give his dogs some snacks, some kind of nutrient-rich food. The snack consist of everything that the dogs need of fluids and nutrients to be able to go on through to Levajok.