Geoff Roes
{{short description|American ultra-marathon runner}}
Geoff Roes (born April 14, 1976 in Central New York) is an American ultra-marathon runner.{{cite web |url=http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=20038 |title=Geoff Roes Continues 100-mile Winning Streak: The ultra champion has a habit of breaking course records, too |first=Mackenzie |last=Lobby |author-link= |date= |year= |work=www.runningtimes.com |publisher=Running Times Magazine |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans-title= |format= |doi= |accessdate=January 12, 2011 |quote= |ref= |postscript= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316051459/http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=20038 |archive-date=March 16, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Career
Roes was raised in Cleveland, New York and excelled in track and cross country at Paul V. Moore High School in Central Square, NY.{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} He competed in cross-country at Syracuse University for one year before becoming injured. Roes took a hiatus from competitive running until trying his hand at ultra marathon running in 2006 when he won his first event, the Little Susitna 50K. In 2007, he set a course record in the process of winning the Susitna 100 miler. In 2010 Roes won the American River 50 Mile Endurance Run.{{cite news|last=Mordhorst|first=Todd|title=They came from the north|url=http://auburnjournal.com/detail/147020.html|accessdate=16 February 2011|newspaper=The Auburn Journal|date=10 April 2010|location=Auburn, CA}} Roes also won the 2010 Western States Endurance Run in a record time of 15:07:04.[http://www.ws100.com/recordholders.htm Western States Record Holders] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516072940/http://www.ws100.com/recordholders.htm |date=2008-05-16 }} Roes set the still-standing course record for the Wasatch 100 (a 100-mile race along the Wasatch Front range of the Rocky Mountains near Salt Lake City, UT) in 2009 with a time of 18:30:55, beating the previous course record by nearly one hour and five minutes. Roes now resides in Juneau, Alaska.{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}}
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External links
- [http://akrunning.blogspot.com/ Geoff Roes' blog]
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