Long Beach Marathon 2025: Jess Clark leads the X30-34 women home

• Jess Clark won the X30-34 in 5:18:47 (12:10/mi), holding 3rd among women throughout and posting the 3rd-fastest women's split on the 5.5M→13.1M segment.
• Kendall Oshiro-Hernandez finished 2nd in 5:53:00 (13:28/mi), closing with the 4th-fastest women's split from 20M to the finish.
• Nasim Karimi rounded out the three-finisher X30-34 field in 7:38:31 (17:29/mi), contributing the 8th-fastest women's split on the 5.5M→13.1M leg.
• A 34-minute gap separates 1st from 2nd, and another 1:45:31 separates 2nd from 3rd — a field spread across a wide range of paces on a warm Long Beach morning.

Three women lined up for the X30-34 at the 2025 Long Beach Marathon, and Jess Clark of Long Beach made her presence felt from the opening miles. Running at 12:10/mi, Clark locked into 3rd among all women and never wavered — her gender place read 3rd at every checkpoint from 5.5 miles to the finish. The highlight of her race came on the 5.5M→13.1M stretch, where she posted the 3rd-fastest women's split on that segment, a clear sign she was moving with purpose through the heart of the course.

Kendall Oshiro-Hernandez, also a Long Beach local, settled into her own rhythm at 13:28/mi and crossed in 5:53:00 for 2nd in the X30-34. She slipped one spot among the women's field between the 13.1M and 20M marks, but she answered in the final stretch — her split from 20M to the finish ranked 4th among all women, making her the strongest closer in the group.

Nasim Karimi made the trip from Rancho Cucamonga and brought the X30-34 field home at 7:38:31, averaging 17:29/mi across 26.2 miles on a humid, 72°F morning. She held 8th among women from the midpoint onward, and her 5.5M→13.1M split ranked 8th among women — a steady, committed effort to see the marathon through to its end.