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Delaware Marathon Festival victories

29 Sunday Apr 2018

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4-person relay, 5K, Delaware Half Marathon, Delaware Marathon Running Festival, deshon, farquhar, firestone, mccooey, rose, weber, weile

Sunday was a great day for Creek Road Runners, despite the unseasonably cool temperatures and added wind. Several participated in one of the events during the weekend, which included the Delaware Marathon, Half-Marathon, 4-Person Relay, and 5K.

photo of Andrew Weberphoto of Dan WeileOne Creek Road Runner—38-year-old CRR Andrew Weber—stood above all the rest (out of 699 finishers) in the Delaware Half-Marathon, winning in 1:22:34 and finishing a good five-and-a-half minutes ahead of the next runner. CRR Dan Weile punched his ticket for the podium by being the third man to finish (fifth overall) in 1:29:52. Both Weber (35-39) and Weile (45-49) would have won their respective age groups but had to settle for the bigger honor of having finished in the top three.

Another notable was CRR Kevin McCooey, who finished 4th among the 60-64s in 2:04:09.

In the 5K on Saturday, CRR Jeremy Firestone won the 60-64 age group in 23:25.

photo of CRR relay team

The 2018 winning Delaware Marathon 4-Person Relay team—Bill Rose, Bill Farquhar, Bruce Weber, and Mark Deshon

photo of first exchangephoto of 1st place team finish ticketThe Creek Road Runners 4-person relay team bested 49 other teams in winning the relay. With an average age of 56.5, the rather senior team of CRR Bill Rose (leadoff) CRR Bruce Weber (leg 2), CRR Mark Deshon (leg 3), and CRR Bill Farquhar (anchor) logged a combined time of 2:59:16, slower than their collective potential but well ahead of the second-place team. This is the best overall place finish of any Creek Road Runners team in the history of this race. Last year, the team placed third; the team was fifth in 2016.

photo of second exchangeAt age 59, Rose (45:03) gave the team the early lead it would not relinquish (exchanging with Weber in above photo), and the cushion that 50-year-old anchor Bill Farquhar (45:27) needed to treat this as an up-tempo training run for next week’s Broad Street Ten Miler. In between, the fastest time of the four—42:17—was turned in by the 57-year-old Weber on leg 2, and Deshon (three weeks shy of turning 62) stepped up his game to post a 46:29—18 seconds better than his relay leg in 2016 (Weber exchanging with Deshon in photo at right).

close-up photo of Bill Farquhar finishingWith the team squarely in the lead, each of the runners enjoyed the luxury of a lead vehicle, either a motorcycle or bicycle, to follow through the 6.55-mile relay course, something to which none of them is accustomed (Farquhar finishing in the photo at left; in photos below: Rose, Farquhar, and Deshon—holding Weber’s jacket during leg 2; Weber congratulating Farquhar after the finish).

photo of Bruce Weber and Bill Farquhar after the race

photo of Bill Rose, Bill Farquhar, and Mark Deshon (holding Bruce Weber’s jacket during leg 2)

Successful relays in Delaware Marathon

11 Sunday May 2014

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crispin, cucciarre, Delaware Marathon Festival, edwards, farquhar, firestone, kaliakin, lennon-edwards, relay, schultz, schumacher, shenton

Delaware Marathon Running Festival logoThree 4-person-relay teams comprising Creek Road Runners competed in Wilmington this morning in the Delaware Marathon. Out of the 160 teams competing, the two top CRR teams each placed in the top 20 and took top three honors in their respective divisions.

photo of Dave Edwards, Shannon Lennon-Edwards, Bill Farquhar, and Keith Crispin

The Creek Road Runners team of Dave Edwards, Shannon Lennon-Edwards, Bill Farquhar, and Keith Crispin took 3rd in their 4-person relay division.

The Creek Road Runners team, a standard and competitive entrant for the past several years at this event, placed 11th overall, just two-tenths of a second out of the top 10, with a 3:09:27. This year’s team of CRR Keith Crispin (43:21), CRR Shannon Lennon-Edwards (48:15), CRR Dave Edwards (52:33), and CRR Bill Farquhar (45:18) placed third in their relay division.

photo of Tripp Shenton, Jeremy Firestone, Vic Kaliakin, and Thomas Schumacher

The Creek Road Runners “B” team (Run Profs Run) of Tripp Shenton, Jeremy Firestone, Vic Kaliakin, and Thomas Schumacher took 2nd in their 4-person relay division.

photo of Dave Schultz and Christine Schultz

CRRs Dave and Christine Schultz, half of The Tails of Two Christines team, ran well too, helping their team place 31st overall in the 4-person relay.

The Run Profs Run (a.k.a. Creek Road Runners 2) team missed winning its division by a mere seven seconds, placing 17th overall in 3:26:11. The team took second place behind the efforts of three civil engineering professors—CRR Thomas Schumacher (46:13), CRR Tripp Shenton (51:09), and CRR Vic Kaliakin (56:36)—and marine policy prof and new CRR Jeremy Firestone (52:12), who was a last-minute bereavement sub.

The Tails of Two Christines (a.k.a. Creek Road Runners 3) featured two husband-wife duos and placed 31st overall in 3:42:52. CRR Christine Schultz and husband, CRR Dave Schultz, held their own with times of 54:59 (1st leg) and 54:23 (3rd leg), respectively, while the two newest Creek Road Runners—CRR Christine Cucciarre (1:01:19, 2nd leg) and husband, CRR Frank Cucciarre (52:10, 4th leg), played their part.

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