Though there were only eight Creek Road Runners who ran the HealthyU 5K on a summer-like day yesterday in Newark, six of them placed in the top three in their respective age group, and five won their respective age groups.
Age group winners CRR Bill Rose (50-59) ran a 19:43 and finished 4th overall, CRR Dan Simmons (60-69) ran a 21:48, CRR Diane Kukich (60-69) ran a 25:44, CRR Becky George (50-59) ran a 26:38, and CRR Bob Bennett (70+) ran a 28:52. CRR Mark Deshon, who took second place honors in the 50-59s and placed 6th overall in the event, ran a 20:50.
CRR Kathy Corbitt helped organize the event, which drew over 200 runners/walkers, on behalf of the University of Delaware.
Editor’s post-post note: Welcome to new CRR Amy Arundale, who ran a 21:55 to finish as the 2nd overall woman in the race and 14th overall.
For those who enjoy shortest, “sprintiest” races, maybe this local dash might be to your liking. Get it over with quickly at the Main Street Mile, to be held on Saturday morning, October 5. 
It’s great for those of us who no longer run races every weekend to simply pick and choose from a plethora of events each week, the vast majority of which support worthy causes (never mind just racing for the fun of it). Once a fixture at weekend races back in the late 1990s, CRR Diane Kukich races sparingly now but picks her spots, and she does so with her “eyes on the prize.” She seems to like the women-only races and on September 12th won her age group (60-64) in the Pink Ribbon 5K with a time of 25:56, placing 55th out of the 539 females who competed.
Here’s an opportunity for you to get in a nice 5K after work, right on the UD campus. HealthyU Employee Wellness is organizing the race, which will take place on Thursday, October 3, 2013, at 6 p.m. The race begins at the corner of Lovett and Academy Streets (near the brand new ISE building) and finishes in front of DuPont Hall on The Green.
This past Saturday CRR Dan Simmons won his age group (65-69) at the 37th Annual Bottle & Cork Ten Miler in Dewey Beach with a 1:13:23, placing 55th overall out of 359 runners. Simmons recently completed the popular Annapolis Ten Mile Run in 1:14:34. In doing so, he placed 2nd out of 34 in his age group and 240th out of the more than 3,400 runners at that race.
CRR Tripp Shenton also ran the Bottle & Cork Ten Miler, coming in with a time of 1:16:51, good for 64th overall.
This past Sunday, CRR Cole Galloway ran Stumpy’s Marathon, a difficult trail marathon in the nearby Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area, organized by the 
CRR Mark Deshon (50-59) and CRR Bob Taggart (70+) each won their respective age groups at the Cindy Foundation for Ovarian Cancer Research 5K on the Riverfront in Wilmington. Deshon’s time was 20:32 and Taggart’s 24:47 for the flat course.
CRR Jay Coughenour qualified for the Boston Marathon with an insanely good 3:02:12 at the Lehigh Valley “VIA” Marathon, held last Saturday. Congratulations! At the same venue, CRR Keith Crispin ran the half-marathon in 1:29:04—a super time. There weren’t many spectators along the way. In fact, of the course, Coughenour said, “It was like running Creek Road for 26.2 miles.”
On the distaff side, CRR Theresa Kauffman won her age group in the Charm City 20-Mile NCR Trail Race in Hunt Valley, Md., on September 1 and last Saturday won her age group in the Diamondman Sprint Duathlon (biking and running) at Lums Pond in 1:48:43. Well done!
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