Boston Marathon F60-64: Veneziano Breaks Three Hours in the 60s

• Lisa Veneziano won the F60-64 age group in 3:00:37 (6:53/mi), the only finisher to crack 3 hours in the group.
• Sally Grand was 75 seconds back in 2nd at 3:01:52 — the two separated the podium from the rest of the field by more than seven minutes.
• Tomoko Koda claimed 3rd in 3:09:35, with Kris Huff (4th, 3:12:33) and Patty Monge (5th, 3:13:17) rounding out the top five within four minutes of each other.
• Places 9 and 10 — Laurie Dymond and Cornelia Pritchard, both of 3:21:24 — finished in the same clock time, with the timing chip separating them.

Lisa Veneziano's 3:00:37 was the headline performance in a field of 782 F60-64 finishers. Running 6:53 per mile across 26.2 miles in cool, breezy Boston conditions, she was the sole athlete in the group to go under three hours — a margin of nearly 1:15 over runner-up Sally Grand. Veneziano's race unfolded as a controlled surge through the back half: she entered the women's field around 937th place and climbed steadily, peaking at 586th among women by mile 21 before a slight positional fade to 648th at the finish — meaning she was running faster than most of the women's field for much of the race, even as the overall field compressed late.

Sally Grand of Texas made her own compelling move through the field, climbing from 1,141st among women at the opening checkpoint all the way to 723rd by the finish — a steady, disciplined progression at 6:56/mi. The gap between Grand and third-place Tomoko Koda stretched to more than seven and a half minutes, underscoring how dominant the top two were relative to the rest of the group.

Koda (3:09:35) mirrored Grand's patient approach, advancing through the women's field from 2,387th to 1,551st. Kris Huff of Georgia (3:12:33) made a similar climb, while Patty Monge of California (3:13:17) told the opposite story — starting fast, sitting 1,108th among women at 5K before fading to 2,049th by the finish, a reminder that Boston's Newton hills exact a price on anyone who goes out too aggressively. Yong-Son Basta of Connecticut finished just one second behind Monge in 6th at 3:13:18, one of the tightest margins of the day.