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10 miler, 5K, amer, Broad Street, geneva, half marathon, kukich, philadelphia, simmons, switzerland, wilmington
“But Swiss time was running out. It seemed that we would lose the race.” —Deep Purple
Though there was no smoke on the water or fire in the sky, one of our own fought through the pain in Switzerland this past weekend. Despite pulling a hamstring, CRR Paul Amer limped the final 6 km to the finish line in the Geneva Half Marathon. Running for the Aseat Toulouse (that’s French for “Creek Road Runners”) team, Amer finished in 2:19:14.
Asked for comment after the race, Amer noted, “I am quite happy in setting the all-time Geneva Half Marathon record for 60-year-old computer science professors from the University of Delaware.”
Congratulations to one of a kind!
In other weekend news, CRR Dan Simmons placed 4th among the 65-69s in the Broad Street Run in Philadelphia yesterday, coming in with a very respectable 1:14:06. Simmons finished 2041st overall out of nearly 40,000 runners. Well done.
Locally, in the Race Against Domestic Violence 5K, CRR Diane Kukich pulled out her lucky pink shoes and won the 60-64 age group in 24:01.
Several good times were turned in during the Philadelphia Marathon weekend races this past weekend. Among those were four notable Creek Road Runners.
CRR Jay Coughenour came in 5th out of 430 in his age group (45-49) in Sunday’s Philadelphia Half Marathon in a blazing fast 1:20:07. He was 72nd overall out of 12,467 finishers! In the same age group, CRR Keith Crispin posted a very good 1:29:02.
In the Rothman 8K, contested on Saturday, CRR Theresa Kauffman ran a 38:44, placing her 6th out of the 72 runners in the 50-54 age group. She finished 256th overall out of 1,609 finishers and 73rd among the women.
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