M30-39 Half Marathon: Musca leads wire-to-wire in the Sacramento fog

• Andrew Musca won the M30-39 group in 1:23:12 (6:21/mi), holding the men's overall lead from start to finish.
• Michael Arciniega was 1:44 back at 1:24:56, running the fastest Lap 1→Finish split among the men to close but never quite close enough.
• Tyler Rose made the sharpest move of the race — climbing from 5th to 3rd with the second-fastest Lap 1→Finish split in the group — finishing in 1:29:07, a full 3:52 improvement on his 1:32:59 here in 2025.
• Just 42 seconds separated 3rd through 4th: Rose (1:29:07) edged Terence M (1:29:49) for the final podium spot.

Andrew Musca ran the kind of race that makes a recap easy to write: he went out first, stayed first, and crossed the line in 1:23:12 at a 6:21/mi clip through Sacramento's heavy fog. His fastest Out & Back→Lap 1 split among the men set the tone early, and nobody came close enough to test him. Michael Arciniega (1:24:56, 6:29/mi) was a steady second the entire way, then threw down the fastest Lap 1→Finish split in the group — a genuine push that trimmed the gap but left Musca's 1:44 margin intact.

The real drama unfolded further back. Tyler Rose had been sitting 5th through the Out & Back segment, but his Lap 1→Finish split — second-fastest in the group — was a different gear entirely. He surged past Terence M, who had held 3rd through the first two checkpoints, to claim the bronze in 1:29:07. That's not just a podium; it's a 3:52 improvement on his 3rd-place finish at this same race in 2025 (1:32:59). Terence M (6:51/mi) faded to 4th in 1:29:49, while Jeremy Adams rounded out the competitive front pack in 5th at 1:33:46 (7:09/mi).

Edward Ruiz (2:00:28, 9:12/mi) and Kyle Gillespie (2:20:54, 10:45/mi) completed the seven-man M30-39 field, finishing well behind the front five but getting it done on a damp, foggy Sacramento morning.