W1-19: Schweibinz Runs Away from the Field in NYC

• Alivia Schweibinz, 19, wins in 1:25:41 (6:32/mi), finishing 3:02 clear of runner-up Kajal Parmar — a dominant margin in a 136-runner W1-19 field.
• Parmar holds 2nd in 1:28:43 (6:46/mi), posting the 134th-fastest women's split on the 15K–20K segment to secure the gap over 3rd.
• Blair Walsh runs a fading line: starting 279th among women, she slipped to 446th by the finish — yet still claimed 3rd in 1:31:57 (7:01/mi), 3:14 ahead of 4th.
• Places 6–9 compressed into 48 seconds: Ashley Carroll (1:39:11), Clementine Huchet (1:39:19), Lily Magliacano (1:39:31), and Camille Barclay (1:39:57) ran nearly the same race from Prospect Park to Central Park.

Alivia Schweibinz was never truly threatened. She entered the women's field at 391st through 5K, then cut steadily through the crowd — 302nd, 214th, 157th — and crossed the line 140th among all women in 1:25:41. That relentless forward march, averaging 6:32 per mile on a cold but calm March morning, is the story of this age group in full. She also contributed the 42nd-fastest women's split on the 20K-to-finish stretch, meaning she didn't just cruise home — she closed.

Kajal Parmar, 18, from Raleigh, ran a composed race in her own right, progressing from 505th to 270th among women and finishing in 1:28:43. The 3:02 gap to Schweibinz was too large to close, but Parmar's 6:46/mi average secured a clear 2nd with daylight over the rest. Blair Walsh, also 18, took 3rd in 1:31:57, though her trajectory told a different tale — she began the race moving through the women's field before gradually ceding places from 10K onward, sliding from 279th to 446th among women. She had the pace to get out fast; holding it was another matter.

The battle for 4th through 9th was where the real racing happened in the second half of the field. Maggie Greiner, 16 from New Canaan, finished 4th in 1:36:22, while Sarah Stark and Ashley Carroll traded blows in the 1:38–1:39 range. Stark (1:38:54) edged Carroll (1:39:11) by 17 seconds, and then Huchet, Magliacano, and Barclay arrived in a tight cluster — all within 38 seconds of each other — to round out the top nine. Delia Kirkpatrick, 16, closed out the top ten in 1:40:30 (7:40/mi).