Biography
Thirty-four year old, Shannon Brockman, was born on December 29, 1969 in Ontario, Canada. She graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Commerce.
“I live with 42 dogs and my husband, Andy Elsberg, outside of Nenana. I first started running dogs in Yellowknife, NWT with a trapline team and came to Fairbanks to get my geology degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and check out the Alaska dog scene.
In the summer I work as an exploration geologist out of Yellowknife. Our dog teams is a mix of bloodlines, mostly trotters and they have always gotten us where we wanted to go. I have some Quest veterans and a number of younger dogs. I want to run the Iditarod to see the trail and give the dogs a positive 1,000 mile race experience.”
Shannon’s interest in the Iditarod was sparked when she made a personal dog sled trip to Nome in 2000. In 1999, she finished 13th in the Percy deWolfe, in the Yukon Quest 250 in 2000, she finished 3rd; in 2001 she finished 2nd in the Denali 300 and in 2002, she finished 10th in the Yukon Quest.
Shannon is a member of MUSH WITH PRIDE and lists her hobbies as skiing, climbing and biking.
2004 Standings
| Checkpoint | Time In | Dogs In | Time Out | Dogs Out | Rest Time | Previous | Layover | Status | Distance | ||
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| Enroute Time | Speed (mph) | 8hr | 24hr | ||||||||
| Anchorage | 3/06 12:42:00 | 12 | |||||||||
| BLM | 3/12 23:00:00 | 14 | 3/13 07:01:00 | 13 | 8h 1m | 154h 18m |  |
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| Willow | 3/13 13:37:00 | 13 | 3/13 19:41:00 | 12 | 6h 4m | 6h 36m | 4.70 | |
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31 | |
| Yentna | 3/14 02:13:00 | 12 | 3/14 08:04:00 | 12 | 5h 51m | 6h 32m | 2.60 | |
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17 | |
| Skwentna | 3/14 12:20:00 | 12 | 3/14 18:10:00 | 12 | 5h 50m | 4h 16m | 7.97 | |
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34 | |
| Finger Lake | 3/15 06:25:00 | 12 | 3/15 13:43:00 | 12 | 7h 18m | 12h 15m | 3.67 | |
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45 | |
| Rainy Pass | 3/15 20:57:00 | 12 | 3/16 02:10:00 | 12 | 5h 13m | 7h 14m | 4.15 | |
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30 | |
| Rohn | 3/16 10:48:00 | 12 | 3/16 17:06:00 | 11 | 6h 18m | 8h 38m | 5.56 | |
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48 | |
| Nikolai | 3/16 23:37:00 | 11 | 3/17 04:19:00 | 10 | 4h 42m | 6h 31m | 14.27 | |
|
93 | |
| McGrath | 3/17 10:31:00 | 10 | 3/17 18:31:00 | 10 | 8h 0m | 6h 12m | 7.74 | |
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48 | |
| Takotna | 3/18 01:37:00 | 10 | 3/18 01:40:00 | 9 | 0h 3m | 7h 6m | 3.24 | |
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23 | |
| Ophir | 3/12 07:53:00 | 3/12 08:45:00 | 14 | 0h 52m | -138h -47m | -0.27 | |
38 | |||
| Cripple | 3/11 13:53:00 | 14 | 3/11 16:03:00 | 14 | 2h 10m | -19h -52m | -3.02 | |
60 | ||
| Ruby | 3/06 13:54:00 | -123h -9m | -0.91 | 112 | |||||||
| Galena | 3/07 12:26:00 | 16 | 52 | ||||||||
| Nulato | 3/07 15:55:00 | 16 | 3/07 16:02:00 | 16 | 0h 7m | 3h 29m | 14.93 | 52 | |||
| Kaltag | 3/07 22:41:00 | 16 | 16 | 6h 39m | 6.32 | 42 | |||||
| Unalakleet | 3/08 08:47:00 | 16 | 16 | 90 | |||||||
| Shaktoolik | 3/08 18:17:00 | 16 | 3/08 18:22:00 | 16 | 0h 5m | 40 | |||||
| Koyuk | 3/08 23:02:00 | 16 | 3/09 07:40:00 | 16 | 8h 38m | 4h 40m | 12.43 | 58 | |||
| Elim | 3/09 22:03:00 | 16 | 3/09 22:25:00 | 16 | 0h 22m | 14h 23m | 3.34 | 48 | |||
| White Mountain | 3/10 08:25:00 | 16 | 3/10 08:33:00 | 16 | 0h 8m | 10h 0m | 4.60 | 46 | |||
| Safety | 3/10 10:53:00 | 16 | 3/11 11:21:00 | 14 | 24h 28m | 2h 20m | 23.57 | |
55 | ||
| Nome | 3/18 04:37:27 | 161h 16m | 0.14 | |
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22 | |||||
