BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Once a troubled young man who felt there was something else for him outside his home in Phenix City, Jessie Holmes is currently leading Alaska’s preeminent sled dog race with halfway to go in the 1,000-mile journey.
As of Thursday morning, Holmes was in first place ahead of 33 other mushers in the famed Iditarod race, a sled dog race that runs over 1,000 miles from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome, Alaska.
According to race officials, Holmes made his way to the Ophir checkpoint at 1:50 a.m. Thursday and headed out 10 minutes later to his next stop in Cripple, which is approximately 480 miles away from Nome…