Broken Arrow 11K F30-39: Steffens Tops a Deep Field in the Tahoe Heat

• Sophia Steffens (1st, 1:03:16) won the F30-39 race at a 9:15/mi avg — more than two minutes clear of 2nd-place Paige Webster (1:05:20).
• Sarah Correa (3rd, 1:06:13) posted the 7th-fastest women's split on the Snow King→Finish segment, the strongest closing effort of the podium trio.
• Taryn Carl (5th, 1:14:44) returned almost exactly to her 2024 result here (7th, 1:14:34), moving up two spots in the F30-39 standings year over year.
• Lindsey Spitler (7th, 46:36) stands out in the results — her listed time of 46:36 at a 6:49/mi avg is a striking outlier against the surrounding field.

Sophia Steffens controlled the F30-39 race from start to finish, crossing in 1:03:16 at a 9:15/mi average across terrain that climbs and descends between 6,200 and 7,500 feet — conditions made tougher still by 87°F heat on race day. Her margin over Paige Webster (1:05:20, 9:34/mi) was 2:04, and she held her gender standing steady through the final Snow King→Finish segment, posting the 11th-fastest women's closing split. Webster, for her part, never wavered either, maintaining her gender position through to the line.

The most impressive finishing kick on the podium belonged to Sarah Correa (3rd, 1:06:13), whose 7th-fastest women's split on Snow King→Finish outpaced both Steffens and Webster on that closing stretch — though the time she needed to make up proved too large to threaten the top two. Laura Mcgowan rounded out the top four in 1:10:04, finishing nearly four minutes back of Correa but well clear of the rest of the field.

Taryn Carl's 5th-place finish in 1:14:44 tells a quiet consistency story: she ran this same course in 1:14:34 a year ago, finishing 7th among women then. Ten seconds slower, two spots better — a testament to how competitive the F30-39 field was in 2024 and how reliably she's executed on this mountain. Anna Kosova (8th, 1:18:23) also returned from 2024, but her time moved in the other direction — she crossed in 1:14:42 that year (9th among women), and added over three and a half minutes in 2025.

All 92 finishers in the F30-39 field navigated the same thin air and summer heat to earn their results, with the back half of the top 20 clustered tightly between 1:21 and 1:30 — a competitive, hard-fought stretch of racing in its own right.