W75-79: Jeannie Rice Dominates the NYC Half at 77

• Rice wins in 1:46:53 — a 8:09/mi average that left the rest of the W75-79 field more than 26 minutes behind.
• Sue Landa takes 2nd in 2:13:31 (10:11/mi), with Christine Everett 3rd in 2:24:40 (11:02/mi) — the podium spans nearly 38 minutes from top to bottom.
• Bokyoung Kwon ran the strongest final push in the group, posting the 9,693rd-fastest 20K-to-finish split among all women — matching Christine Everett's surge to the line, which was the 8,763rd-fastest women's split on that same closing segment.
• All 14 women in the W75-79 group crossed the finish line on a crisp 40°F morning in Prospect Park to Central Park.

Jeannie Rice, 77, from Concord Township, OH, was simply in a different race. Her 1:46:53 — averaging 8:09 per mile — was a commanding wire-to-wire performance, and while she moved through the women's field during the early miles, she faded in relative women's-field position through the second half as the broader field thinned out around her. None of that diminished what she did: no one in the W75-79 group came within 26 minutes of her finish time.

Sue Landa (76, LaGrange, GA) ran a controlled, steady race to secure 2nd in 2:13:31. Her women's field position actually improved across every checkpoint — moving from well outside the top 8,000 at the start to 7,874th among all women by the finish — a sign of consistent, patient pacing at 10:11/mi. Christine Everett (75, Missoula, MT) took 3rd in 2:24:40, and like Landa, she climbed steadily through the women's field all race long, finishing with the 8,763rd-fastest closing segment among all women.

Fourth through sixth were separated by just over 11 minutes: Mary Newell (75, New Haven, CT) crossed in 2:35:49, Bokyoung Kwon (75, Fishkill, NY) in 2:39:27 — with a strong late surge that produced the 9,693rd-fastest 20K-to-finish split among all women — and Irene Hale (77, Helensburgh, Scotland) in 2:43:16. Then came a notable gap before Dina Perl (3:08:36), Johana Carter (3:09:14), Sonia Yevich (3:09:33), and Inga-Lill Strand (3:09:43) finished in a tight cluster within just 67 seconds of each other for 7th through 10th. Roseanne Svihra (11th, 3:15:18), Andree Johnson (12th, 3:26:07), Mindi Adler (13th, 3:32:46), and Daria Kelley (14th, 4:09:25) rounded out a group that put 14 women aged 75–77 across the finish line of the NYC Half.