Broken Arrow 23K — NB20-29: Williams leads a San Francisco sweep

• Elliott Williams took the NB20-29 title in 3:31:07 (14:46/mi), posting the 4th-fastest women's split on the High Camp→Finish stretch to close strong.
• Hannah Macleod ran 4:09:25 for 2nd, climbing from 10th to 8th among women on the final two segments with the 8th-fastest women's split on KT 22→Siberia.
• Kit Vodehnal (4th, 5:26:32) returns to the 23K after finishing 8th Non-Binary in 2025 (5:01:50) — a different category, a tougher day this time around.
• All five finishers called San Francisco home — a city-specific sweep across the entire NB20-29 field.

Five starters, five finishers, and every single one of them from San Francisco. The NB20-29 field at the 2026 Broken Arrow 23K had a tight geographic identity, but the racing itself spread across a wide range of times and efforts on a course that climbs to nearly 8,800 feet above sea level — terrain that has no mercy regardless of where you're from.

Elliott Williams set the tone from the gun, holding 7th among women through most of the race before ticking up to 6th on the final push to the finish. That closing High Camp→Finish split — 4th-fastest among women in the entire field — was the signature move of the day, sealing the NB20-29 win in 3:31:07. Hannah Macleod ran a patient race in 2nd, sitting 10th among women for most of the course before surging on the KT 22→Siberia segment (8th-fastest women's split there) and carrying that momentum home in 4:09:25. Ella Rohm-Ensing rounded out the podium in 3rd at 4:16:22, posting the 9th-fastest women's split on the Olympic Valley East→Snow King stretch and finishing 9th among women.

Behind them, Kit Vodehnal crossed 4th in 5:26:32 — a notably different experience from the 2025 edition, where Vodehnal finished 8th Non-Binary in 5:01:50 under a different entry category. Today's conditions added time, not subtracted it. Lee Harwood completed the field in 5th at 5:33:33, holding 13th among women from start to finish — consistent and steady across the full 23K, including the 12th-fastest women's split on KT 22→Siberia shared with Vodehnal on that same segment.