Broken Arrow 23K Women's 30–39: Schaffhouser Takes the Title in the Thin Air of Tahoe

• Jennifer Schaffhouser won the F30-39 race in 2:31:37 (10:37/mi), finishing 3 minutes 54 seconds clear of runner-up Erin Storck.
• Erin Storck crossed in 2:35:31 (10:53/mi), posting the 30th-fastest women's split on the High Camp→Finish stretch — but couldn't close a gap that had been building all race.
• Krissy Harclerode ran the 31st-fastest women's split on the High Camp→Finish leg to move from 41st to 38th among women, edging Marissa Baranauskas by just 5 seconds (2:50:10 to 2:50:05) — though the places tell the story: Baranauskas held 3rd, Harclerode 4th.
• 79 women finished in the F30-39 field, racing at elevations up to 8,834 feet across some of Tahoe's most demanding terrain.

Jennifer Schaffhouser, 37, from Santa Cruz, was a model of consistency across the course — holding 33rd among women through the first four checkpoints before moving up to 28th on the final High Camp→Finish stretch, where she posted the 18th-fastest women's split. At 10:37/mi across high-altitude terrain ranging up to 8,834 feet, she ran a controlled, confident race and crossed in 2:31:37 to claim the F30-39 title by nearly four minutes.

Erin Storck (2:35:31, 10:53/mi) made her move earlier in the race — climbing from 34th among women to 31st by the second checkpoint — but couldn't sustain that momentum all the way to the line. Her High Camp→Finish split was the 30th-fastest among women, compared to Schaffhouser's 18th. The gap that opened in the middle of the race proved decisive.

The battle for the final podium spot was the afternoon's tightest drama. Marissa Baranauskas (2:50:05, 11:54/mi) from Colorado Springs held 3rd, but Krissy Harclerode of Reno was surging behind her — posting the 31st-fastest women's split on the High Camp→Finish leg to climb from 41st to 38th among women. Harclerode finished in 2:50:10, just five seconds back, but Baranauskas had already secured the bronze. Morgan Hawkins (2:53:16) and Jessie Diggins (2:54:08) rounded out the top six, with Micaela Russo — who also placed 6th among women in the Iron Face Challenge 5 Mile — finishing 17th in 3:19:46, a notable double effort across the weekend's racing.