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Seashore Running Festival standouts

15 Wednesday Apr 2026

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This past weekend, Rehoboth Beach, Del., was the site of the Delaware Seashore Running Festival, comprising four races—a 5K, 9K, half-marathon, and marathon. A couple Creek Road Runners—Diane Kukich and Joe Dombroski—had notable performances.

CRR Diane Kukich ran the 5K on Saturday and the 9K on Sunday, winning her age group (70-74) in each race. In the 5K, she placed 35th among female masters runners and 87th among all female competitors in a time of 28:37 (28:55 gun). She was the 235th finisher oveall out of 874 competitors. In the next day’s 9K, Kukich was the 58th female finisher and 16th among the female masters in 53:00 (53:22 gun). She finished 152nd overall out of 678 racers.

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At age 66, CRR Joe Dombroski ran his very first half marathon, completing the 13.1-mile distance in 2:22:15 (2:27:40 gun) and placing 9th in his age group (65-69). He was the 429th finisher among the 1,437 who completed the race.

Well done, both of you.

Like mother, like daughter

16 Tuesday Apr 2024

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In the 70-74 age group, CRR Diane Kukich is still training daily and racing occasionally…and nearly always winning. Her racing muse is her daughter, Christine, a Baltimore resident who has taken up running and racing pretty seriously over the past decade. 

They register for and compete in races together, which, though they each run at their own pace, gives them good mother-daughter time. This is especially true when they both bring home hardware, which, depending on the race, is becoming more commonplace.

Last weekend, the Kukich women competed in the Coastal Delaware Running Festival. 

The elder ran in the Cape Challenge, which included a 5K in Dewey Beach on Saturday and a 9K in Rehoboth Beach on Sunday. She won the 70-74 age group in both events with times of 26:43 and 50:12, respectively.

Christine did the Fort Miles Challenge, which included the 5K on Saturday plus a half-marathon on Sunday. Not to go home empty-handed, she placed second among her 30-34 age-group peers in the 5K in 22:50 and fourth in the half (missing third place by one second) in 1:44:08.

> about Diane’s amazing training streak (ongoing since Christine was born)

Philadelphia Marathon milestones

25 Friday Nov 2022

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Two Creek Road Runners celebrated milestones in this year’s Philadelphia Marathon, which took place on Sunday, November 20.

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CRR Andrew Weber, one of Newark’s best runners, ran a new PR in the race, clocking in with a chip-timed 2:56:56. He finished an impressive 31st among the 612 competitors in the 40-44s and 341st overall among 8,420 finishers.

Among the women, CRR Diane Kukich completed what has been a banner year for her by running her first-ever marathon. At age 70, Kukich added yet another Delaware state age-group record to her collection, finishing 3rd in the 70-74 age group in 4:58:36 (chip time) and obliterating the previous Delaware record by 48 minutes! Kukich currently owns state age-group bests in the 5K, 10K, 15K, marathon (all in 2022), and the 5 mile (set in 2017).

Wow! Congratulations to both runners.

Completing a record-breaking trifecta

18 Wednesday May 2022

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state record holder CRR Diane Kukich

It has been a profitable early season for CRR Diane Kukich, who has been targeting Delaware age-group records since she turned 70 this past February.

Having already eclipsed the 5K and 15K records in March and April, respectively, Kukich completed her trifecta within the 70-74 age group on May 14 by setting a new state record in the 10K at the St. Michael’s (Md.) Running Festival. Her time was 53:25, smashing the 2016-set mark by 55 seconds.

Kukich now holds four of the 17 state age-group records that are held by Creek Road Runners and admits that “three records in three months was intense.”

Next, she’ll be setting her sights on and training for her first marathon, which she wants to run and “just finish” on November 3.

Attacking the record books

08 Friday Apr 2022

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About every five years, CRR Diane Kukich hears opportunity knocking at her door—specifically, looking at the age-group state records that may be within her grasp. Well, it didn’t take long for Kukich, who turned 70 in February, to take aim at and break a couple state age-group records.

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Record breaker CRR Diane Kukich with running daughter Christine in Philadelphia

On March 5 at the Attack Addiction 5K in New Castle, Kukich placed first among the 70-and-overs, finishing as the 25th female and 103rd overall out of the massive local field of 1,567, with a 25:08. Her time eclipsed the old 70-74 state record by 47 seconds.

Perhaps even more impressive was the most recent record she broke, which had stood for 31 years. At the Hot Chocolate 15K in Philadelphia on April 2, amid 1,779 runners from all over the East Coast as well as a few other parts of the country, Kukich smashed the Delaware 70-74 age group record for the 15K (9.3-mile) distance—a long race for her—by a whopping 6:05! She crossed the line in 1:28:13, finishing as the top 70-and-over female and placing 305th among all women and 549th overall.

Five years ago, Kukich broke and still holds Delaware’s 65-69 age-group record for the five-mile distance as well. For a time, she held the 10-mile record in the 50-54 age group, and, until last year, also held the 20K record in that same age group.

Currently, Creek Road Runners now hold 15 state age-group records in total, with Kukich keeping her eyes on some upcoming races at other distances.

Best of luck to a super senior!