Girdwood musher Nicolas Petit is the first competitor into the Nikolai checkpoint.
Dallas and Mitch Seavey are running in second and third place, respectively, with Wade Marrs trailing in fourth.
Pete Kaiser, Hugh Neff, Aliy Zirkle and Lance Mackey are currently in fifth through eighth place, only a few mile behind the front runners.
Nikolai is 263 miles into the race. Next, mushers will make a 48 mile run to McGrath.
