Broken Arrow Ascent M10-19: Doud dominates as an 11-year-old steals the show

• Mark Doud, 18, wins in 1:00:16 — nearly 7½ minutes clear of the field, averaging 27:43/mi up a course that tops out near 8,000 feet in 91°F heat.
• Levi Streit, age 11, finishes 3rd in 1:12:08 — the youngest in the field, ahead of two older competitors including a 19-year-old.
• Tightest battle of the day: Zachary Norcia (4th, 1:12:57) and Walker Rawlinson (5th, 1:13:27) were separated by just 30 seconds, with Ethan Scholnick rounding out the six-man field in 1:15:02.
• A strong closing segment from Streit: he moved from 186th to 158th among the women on the Snow King→Finish stretch, the 155th-fastest women's split on that segment — while Norcia and Rawlinson both faded, dropping from roughly 117th–118th to 162nd–166th in that same stretch.

Six young athletes toed the line for the M10-19 race at Broken Arrow's Ascent — a 3.5K grind through thin air above Lake Tahoe, with race-day temperatures hitting 91°F and no clouds for cover. Mark Doud, 18, from Chico, made it look like a different race entirely. His 1:00:16 finish at a 27:43/mi average was nearly seven and a half minutes faster than second-place Luka Karnickis (1:07:34, 31:04/mi) — a gap that speaks for itself on a course this demanding.

Karnickis, 15, from Tahoe City, held second comfortably, but the real drama unfolded behind him. Levi Streit — just 11 years old, from Truckee — crossed in 1:12:08 to claim third, outrunning two older competitors. More tellingly, Streit was the only finisher in the back half of the field to gain ground on the Snow King→Finish segment, climbing from 186th to 158th among women on that stretch. That's a finishing kick, at altitude, in the heat, from a kid who won't be old enough to drive for five more years.

Zachary Norcia, 19, from San Jose, and Walker Rawlinson, 17, from Tahoe City, were locked together through much of the race before both faded on the closing segment — Norcia finishing 4th in 1:12:57 and Rawlinson 5th in 1:13:27, a 30-second gap between them. Ethan Scholnick, 15, from Truckee, closed out the field in 1:15:02. Six finishers, one dominant winner, and an 11-year-old who refused to read the script.