21 Tuesday Apr 2015
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CRR Keith Crispin and CRR Christina Parsons each qualified for and completed yesterday’s Boston Marathon, two years after the bombing occurred near the finish line.
Crispin turned in a 3:11:12 finishing time, and Parsons ran a PR of 3:54:32. Well done, both of you!
11 Saturday Apr 2015
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Runners who joined for the Simmons farewell run included (front row) Bill Rose, Sue Simmons, Bob Bennett, and (back row) Mark Deshon, Dan Simmons, Shawn Alexander, Doug Repetti, Diane Kukich, Steve Goodwin, April Hubbard, and Bruce Hubbard. (photo by Doug Baker)
Runners and friends gathered on Friday to give an official farewell to CRR Dan Simmons and his wife, Sue. The event was highlighted by a simple out-and-back fun run of about 5K along Creek Road (where else?), then those who could make it shared lunch with Dan and Sue at the Deer Park Tavern. They will be moving to California in the near future and will be missed.
Simmons, a biology professor, retired from the University of Delaware recently. He holds the state record for his age-group (65-69) in the half-marathon with a 1:36:43 (and 20K, unofficially, with his half-marathon time).
31 Tuesday Mar 2015
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Enoch Lee, a native Newarker and University of Delaware student, lost his life in a tragic car accident this past October. There will be a unique 10K trail run—“The Race To Save The World – Enoch Lee Memorial Run”—on Saturday April 18th in Middle Run Park (off Possum Hollow Road) in Enoch’s memory.
The start of the race, in fact, is very close to Enoch’s family’s home. More information can be found at www.runreg.com/enoch.
Note: Anyone who wants to order a special race t-shirt needs to register by this Friday, April 3rd.
The race is part of a trail-running series www.trailcreekseries.org. CRR Brian Bahnson, whose wife Lauri Webber is one of the promoters of the Trail Creek Series, invites you to support and get the word out about the race.
All (100%) of the proceeds will benefit the Enoch Lee Memorial Fund.
23 Monday Mar 2015
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Self-proclaimed, self-appointed Creek Road Runners CEO CRR Matt Robinson publicly called out several of his peers in an opinion piece in the Wilmington News Journal’s Saturday edition.
The article itself was interesting enough and then suddenly took a turn for the comic tongue-in-cheek.
Robinson writes, “If my runs were about inspection, I know I would be outrunning my fellow runners Charlie [CRR Charlie Riordan], Mark [CRR Mark Deshon], Steve [CRR Steve Goodwin], Paul A. [CRR Paul Amer] and Tom [CRR Tom Reed], and I know I could find better golfers than Avron [CRR Avron Abraham], Ian and Paul P. [CRR Paul Pusecker], but I enjoy the time away from inspection and distraction. I’d rather focus on thoughts and great ideas that have surfaced during one of those runs, or the good laughs and insightful conversations I have had with my running group and golfing buddies.”
Trying to impugn someone’s golf game is one thing, but, inspection or no inspection, Robinson has now thrown down the gauntlet for the aforementioned runners.
Read the entire article, which is actually pretty good, though maybe our CEO could be spending less time musing and more time on Creek Road.
23 Monday Mar 2015
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CRR Diane Kukich won her age division (60-64) this past weekend in the Shamrock 8K in Virginia Beach, Va. Her time of 40:34 (38:44 chip time) was tops among 136 of her age-group peers. Averaging 7:48 per mile, Kukich placed in the top 100 overall out of more than 5,500 women. This was one of three races, which also included the Yuengling Marathon and Anthem Half Marathon. Congratulations!
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