M30-39: Furman Dominates as Sacramento's Own Rodriguez Rounds Out a Three-Man Showdown

• Blake Furman won the M30-39 age group in 3:21:41 (6:30/mi), holding 2nd among men through the opening segment before surging to the lead — and never looking back.
• Victor Skorapa finished 2nd in M30-39 in 3:59:17 (7:42/mi), nearly 38 minutes back of Furman — a significant step back from his 3:54:15 here in 2025, when he placed 4th among men.
• Anthony Rodriguez completed the M30-39 podium in 4:25:22 (8:32/mi), Sacramento's local representative holding a steady mid-field position among the men throughout.
• The age group's spread: over an hour separated Furman from Rodriguez across 31 miles of fog-draped Sacramento roads.

Blake Furman made his move early and made it stick. He entered the Out & Back→Lap 1 segment sitting 2nd among men, but posted the fastest split among men on that stretch — a decisive surge that vaulted him to the front of the men's field and kept him there for every checkpoint that followed. At 6:30/mi across 31 miles in 50°F fog, that's a performance that commanded the entire race, not just his age group.

Victor Skorapa had unfinished business at Jed Smith after his 3:54:15 and 4th-place men's finish here in 2025, but 2026 proved tougher. He slipped from 4th to 6th among men by the second checkpoint and stayed locked there through the finish, crossing in 3:59:17. The 6th-fastest men's split on the Out & Back→Lap 1 segment tells the story — solid, but nowhere near Furman's pace on the stretch that decided things.

Anthony Rodriguez, racing in his home city of Sacramento, was the steadiest mover of the three in relative terms — working his way from 10th among men up to 8th by Lap 1→Lap 2 before settling back to 10th at the line in 4:25:22. His 8th-fastest men's split on that middle segment showed genuine strength in the back half, even if the overall gap to Furman was too large to bridge.