Men's 18K: Tyler Green Owns It Wire to Wire

• Tyler Green, 42, wins in 1:37:46 (8:45/mi avg) — led the men's field from start to finish and posted the fastest split on the Snow King→KT 22 segment across all 260 men's finishers.
• Podium separated by just 2:34 — Dustin Decker (2nd, 1:53:28), Paul Mckinley (3rd, 1:53:54), and Amir Barkan (4th, 1:54:20) waged a tight three-way battle across the back half of the course.
• Mckinley and Decker swapped 2nd and 3rd mid-race — Mckinley held 2nd through the Snow King→KT 22 segment (posting the 2nd-fastest men's split there) before Decker reclaimed it with the 2nd-fastest men's split on Siberia→High Camp.
• David Cahill, 47, finishes 8th in 2:02:28 — back on the same course where he went 6th in 2024 (2:00:51), a strong return showing at altitude.

Tyler Green made this one look straightforward — and that's the most impressive part. The Salt Lake City 42-year-old led every single checkpoint from gun to tape, averaging 8:45 per mile across a course that climbs from 6,200 to nearly 8,820 feet. That pace, at this altitude, on this terrain, is a statement. His margin over 2nd place was a commanding 15:42, and he didn't earn it with one good segment — he closed it out with the fastest Snow King→KT 22 split in the entire men's field.

Behind Green, the real racing was happening. Decker (27, Petaluma) and Mckinley (26, Berkeley) traded blows throughout. Mckinley moved ahead of Decker between checkpoints two and three, holding 2nd through the Snow King→KT 22 stretch where he ran the 2nd-fastest men's split on that leg. But Decker answered on the Siberia→High Camp segment, posting the 2nd-fastest men's split there to reclaim 2nd — and he held it to the finish. The gap at the line: just 26 seconds. Barkan (24, Fairfax) slotted in 4th at 1:54:20, having climbed from 5th at checkpoint two with the 3rd-fastest men's split on Siberia→High Camp. Neil Klinger (5th, 1:55:35) and Caleb Brackett (6th, 1:55:54) rounded out the top six within a tight 19-second window.

Further back, David Cahill (47, Truckee) delivered one of the field's better stories — returning to a course where he finished 6th in 2024 and crossing 8th this year in 2:02:28. The thin air above Tahoe doesn't seem to slow the locals. Jared Lopez (37, Truckee) also returned from an 8th-place finish in 2025 (1:47:24), finishing 11th this year in 2:07:15 — a tougher day, but still inside the top 11 of a 260-man field.