SF Marathon Half — F35-39: Tecott Runs Away With It

• Hannah Tecott won the F35-39 race in 1:32:15 (7:02/mi), more than four minutes clear of the field.
• Amy Leong made the biggest move of the day, climbing from 42nd to 24th among women on her way to 2nd place in 1:36:30 — posting the 20th-fastest women's split on the final stretch.
• Jenny Ratzel and Barrett Willis finished just 10 seconds apart — 3rd in 1:36:51 and 4th in 1:37:01 — with Willis making up ground late on the same closing segment where Leong surged.
• Summer Fu rounded out the top five in 1:40:04, 13 seconds ahead of Melanie Forter's 1:40:17 in 6th.

Hannah Tecott, 35, from San Francisco, put together the kind of race that leaves little to discuss about the outcome — only how it was done. Running a 7:02/mi average on a cool, humid morning in her home city, she crossed in 1:32:15, a margin of over four minutes on the field. Her second half wasn't just steady; she posted the 13th-fastest women's split on that stretch across the entire women's field, meaning she didn't coast — she kept pushing through the finish.

The real drama in F35-39 played out behind her, in a three-way contest for the podium. Amy Leong ran the race of the chaser pack, starting 42nd among women and methodically climbing — 32nd, 26th, and finally 24th — to claim 2nd in 1:36:30 (7:22/mi). Her 20th-fastest women's split on the 10.9M-to-finish segment was the engine of that surge. Jenny Ratzel had her best moment earlier, posting the 15th-fastest women's split on the 2.95M-to-5M stretch, which helped her hold 3rd in 1:36:51. Barrett Willis was the other closer in the group, also logging a strong final segment — 24th-fastest among women on that same 10.9M-to-finish stretch — to finish 4th in 1:37:01, just 10 seconds behind Ratzel.

Summer Fu (1:40:04, 7th) and Melanie Forter (1:40:17, 6th) separated themselves from the next tier with a 13-second gap between them and a nearly three-minute cushion to 7th-place Whitney Bakke (1:41:31). Among 155 finishers in this group, the spread from 1st to 20th alone tells the story of a competitive morning on the San Francisco streets.