Fort Ord 50K Female Masters: Wright Dominates, Deep Field Delivers

• Svatava Wright won the Female Masters in 5:56:20 (11:28/mi), posting the 2nd-fastest women's split on the Sandstone 1→Sandstone 2 segment and holding 2nd among all women from the second checkpoint to the finish.
• Suzy Kisylia, 57, claimed 2nd in 6:20:43 — a 24-minute gap back — with the 3rd-fastest women's split on that same Sandstone stretch, while Abby Yassin, 54, rounded out the podium in 6:27:54 with the 4th-fastest women's split on Oil Well→Toro Creek.
• The biggest mover of the day: Susan Corrie entered the women's field 28th at the first checkpoint and climbed all the way to 11th by the finish, clocking the 5th-fastest women's split on the Toro Creek→Finish stretch to land 5th in 6:45:16.
• Eight finishers came in between 7:04 and 7:12 — Lina McCain (7:04:37) through Ashley Delle (7:12:05) — making the 8th-through-12th spots among the tightest cluster in the field.

Svatava Wright, the local from Monterey, put together the most complete race of the day. She moved into 2nd among all women before the second checkpoint and never relinquished it, maintaining an 11:28/mi average across 31 miles of Fort Ord's varied terrain. Her Sandstone 1→Sandstone 2 split was the second-fastest among all women in the field — a stretch that separated her from the rest of the masters field for good.

Behind her, the race for 2nd and 3rd was a genuine battle of experience. Kisylia, at 57, ran a tactically sharp race — she was 8th among women early but had climbed to 3rd by the midpoint and held on for 2nd in the masters in 6:20:43. Yassin, 54, took a different path: she slipped back through the middle of the race, sitting 14th among women at one stage, before a strong Oil Well→Toro Creek leg — 4th-fastest among all women on that segment — hauled her back to 3rd in 6:27:54. That's a catch-up story worth noting: Yassin made up serious ground late while Kisylia had already done her climbing earlier.

Mary Weyant (4th, 6:33:30) and Susan Corrie (5th, 6:45:16) both delivered strong back halves, with Corrie's late surge from 28th among women to 11th the most dramatic arc of the day. At the other end of the leaderboard, Paula LM of Half Moon Bay completed all 50K in 9:16:00 — every finisher in a 20-woman masters field earns that.