M25-29: Peter Toland Dominates with a Sub-1:19 Half

• Peter Toland (age 26, Huntsville) won M25-29 in 1:18:32 — a 5:59/mi pace that also lifted him to 1st among men after running 3rd among men through 10K.
• Anthony Parameswaran finished 2nd in 1:21:41 (6:14/mi) — 3 minutes and 9 seconds back, with the 4th-fastest 10K→Finish split among men.
• Drew Ballard and Elliot Fudge rounded out the top four, separated by just over 2 minutes (1:27:15 vs. 1:29:40).
• Maslin Brown's listed time of 8:48:14 at a 40:18/mi average stands out as a data anomaly in an otherwise clean field.

Peter Toland didn't just win M25-29 — he ran his way to the top of the entire men's field by the finish. Through 10K he was sitting 3rd among men, but his 10K→Finish leg was the 2nd-fastest men's split in the race, and that surge carried him all the way to 1st among men. At 5:59/mi for 13.1 miles in mild but breezy 59°F conditions, Toland set a standard that no one in the age group came close to matching.

Anthony Parameswaran held 4th among men at the 10K mark and moved up to finish 4th among men overall — his 10K→Finish split ranked 4th among men, a consistent and controlled second half that secured his runner-up spot in M25-29 by a comfortable margin. Drew Ballard (3rd, 1:27:15) and Elliot Fudge (4th, 1:29:40) both made similar moves up the men's leaderboard in the back half, climbing from 10th and 13th among men to 7th and 11th respectively — a sign that the top four in this age group were all strong finishers.

Behind the top four, Alexander Quadrini (5th, 1:46:34) was the last finisher under the 2-hour mark before the field spread out considerably. The gap from Quadrini to Michael McCoy in 6th — not counting Maslin Brown's anomalous entry — stretched to over 4 minutes, and from there the field ranged all the way past 2:22 for the 20th-listed finisher, with 12 more beyond that. Toland's winning margin of more than 3 minutes over Parameswaran tells you everything about how thoroughly he controlled this race from the front.