F30-39: Correa dominates the fog, Cronk chases her own ghost

• Sarah Correa won the F30-39 race in 1:25:17 (6:31/mi), posting the fastest women's split on the Out & Back→Lap 1 segment and leading among women from wire to wire.
• Katie Trent (1:34:35) and Allison Cronk (1:35:00) finished 2nd and 3rd — separated by just 25 seconds, with Trent holding the edge after running the second- and third-fastest women's splits on Out & Back→Lap 1, respectively.
• Allison Cronk won this same race in 2025 in 1:34:26 — she came back to defend and finished 3rd, just 34 seconds off her previous winning time.
• Carolyn Perrotti Lake turned in the 10th-fastest women's split on Lap 1→Finish, climbing from 17th among women at the opening checkpoint all the way to 11th by the line, finishing 4th in the F30-39 group in 2:01:46.

Sacramento's fog hung over the course as Sarah Correa made the race look straightforward — not because it was, but because she was simply on another level. Running 6:31/mi, she led among women from the first checkpoint through the finish and never relinquished that position. Her Out & Back→Lap 1 split was the fastest in the entire women's field, a statement that set the tone early and held all the way to her 1:25:17 finish.

Behind her, the battle for 2nd and 3rd played out in near-lockstep. Katie Trent (Reno, NV) ran the second-fastest women's split on Out & Back→Lap 1 and held on for 2nd in 1:34:35. Allison Cronk of Auburn, CA matched her stride-for-stride in that early stretch — 3rd-fastest women's split on the same segment — and finished 3rd in 1:35:00. The gap between them was 25 seconds; the effort to close it was real, with Trent running the faster early pace and Cronk unable to fully reel her in across the final lap.

Cronk's story deserves its own beat: she won this race in 2025 in 1:34:26, and she came back in 2026 to defend that title. She finished 3rd, just 34 seconds off her own winning time from a year ago — a testament to how competitive the F30-39 field became, not a drop in performance. Meanwhile, Genessee Tudino (Sacramento, CA) offered a cautionary tale from the other direction: she sat 2nd among women at the first checkpoint before fading to 10th by Lap 1 and 16th at the finish, completing in 2:11:18. Carolyn Perrotti Lake ran the opposite arc, climbing steadily from 17th among women early to 11th by the finish — 4th in F30-39 in 2:01:46 — making her the group's most determined closer on a cold, foggy Sacramento morning.