M40-49 at Jed Smith Ultra Classic 30K: Badolato Owns It Solo

• Chris Badolato, 48, finished in 2:02:05 — the only M40-49 finisher in the field.
• Pace of 6:33/mi across 30K of fog-soaked Sacramento roads.
• Fastest split on the Out & Back→Lap 1 segment among the men.
• Led the men's race wire-to-wire — 1st at every checkpoint from start to finish.

Chris Badolato made the trip down from Reno and left no doubt in the M40-49 age group, crossing in 2:02:05 as the sole finisher in his bracket. With no one to chase and no one chasing him, this was a race against the clock and the conditions — 50°F, heavy fog, and 93% humidity along the Sacramento course.

What Badolato delivered wasn't just a completion. He held 6:33/mi through the full 30K and was never displaced from the front of the men's race, sitting 1st among the men at every checkpoint recorded. More notably, he posted the fastest men's split on the Out & Back into Lap 1 — a segment where the race often begins to separate — suggesting he ran his best stuff right when the course demanded it most.

A field of one is still a field conquered. Badolato takes the M40-49 title at the 2026 Jed Smith Ultra Classic 30K, and the numbers back up every step of it.