Broken Arrow 18K F30-39: Murray leads wire-to-wire for the win

• Amanda Murray took the F30-39 title in 2:21:04 (12:37/mi), running the 3rd-fastest women's split on the Snow King→KT 22 segment — and doing it a year after finishing 6th among women here in 2025 (1:56:34 in a different race context).
• Abigail Diaz charged from 12th among women at the opening checkpoint all the way to 7th by mid-race, locking in 2nd in F30-39 at 2:24:35 with the 6th-fastest women's split on KT 22→Siberia.
• Estefany Perlic (3rd, 2:34:23) and Antonia von Oepen (4th, 2:34:40) finished just 17 seconds apart — Perlic with the 9th-fastest women's split on the final High Camp→Finish stretch, von Oepen with the 10th-fastest on Siberia→High Camp.
• Emily Harrington, 39, posted the 7th-fastest women's split on Snow King→KT 22 and ran as high as 7th among women mid-race before fading to 5th in F30-39 at 2:38:21.

Amanda Murray owned this race from the front. She sat 3rd among women through the opening segments and never dropped below 5th in the women's field all day — a composed, measured effort at altitude that held off the rest of the F30-39 field by more than three and a half minutes. The conditions were forgiving — 67°F, barely a breath of wind — but the course still climbs from 6,200 to nearly 8,820 feet, and Murray's 12:37/mi average reflects the real bite of the terrain. A year ago she finished 6th among women at this same race; today she stood on top of F30-39.

Behind her, Abigail Diaz ran one of the more aggressive races in the field. She was 12th among women early and steadily worked her way forward, leaning on a sharp KT 22→Siberia split to cement 2nd place at 2:24:35. The gap to Murray was 3:31 — real and earned — but Diaz's trajectory through the race was one of the day's cleaner stories.

The battle for 3rd and 4th was the tightest on the podium. Perlic and von Oepen both clawed their way up the women's standings across the back half of the course — Perlic moving from 24th among women at the first checkpoint to 14th by the finish, von Oepen from 28th to 15th. They crossed 17 seconds apart, Perlic edging von Oepen for the final podium spot. Emily Harrington, the eldest of the top five at 39, rounded out the top five at 2:38:21 after a fast early surge faded through the second half.

Kyla Walter (6th, 2:41:13), Bridget Went (7th, 2:41:45), and Marla Glass (8th, 2:43:00) kept the pressure on through the back of the top ten, while Michelle Ashley (9th, 2:44:54) and Suzanne Stewart (10th, 2:45:03) finished within nine seconds of each other to close out a competitive top ten across an 89-finisher F30-39 field.