The inaugural Beat Coach Pete 5k on Saturday was a smashing success, raising $15,000 for student scholarships. The Idaho Press-Tribune reports that Coach Pete finished the race with a time of 25 minutes and 52 seconds, which was good enough for 323rd.
The goal of the race was to generate as much money as possible for the general student scholarship fund at Boise State while also challenging participants to beat the third-year football coach. Petersen was beat by 322 runners in the race and pledged $5 of his money to the scholarship fund for each person who was faster.At five dollars per person, Coach Pete had to pony up $1,610, which is only slightly less than the Utah State football budget.
Beat Pete run raises $15,000 [Press-Tribune]
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You gotta believe that Pete maybe didn't "give his all" to win this thing. The glory of a win doesn't usually trump giving none of your money away.
ReplyDelete26 minutes is a great time for a guy as old as he is. He might have used strategy to make people feel better by beating him and to raise money for charity, but that is still a good run time.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see him do a triathlon next!
A triathlon would be fun. How about a tag team wrestling match with all the assistant coaches? For scholarships, of course.
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