SF Half Marathon F25-29: Aubrey Roberts Runs Down the Field in a 1:25:34 Victory

• Aubrey Roberts won the F25-29 race in 1:25:34 (6:32/mi), climbing from 6th among women at the midpoint to 2nd by the finish — and posting the 3rd-fastest women's second-half split in the entire field.
• Kyla Persky held 2nd in F25-29 at 1:33:11, closing with the 6th-fastest women's split on the 10.65M-to-finish stretch to secure the runner-up spot.
• Erin Boyle (4th, 1:37:24) was the biggest mover of the race, surging from outside the top 35 among women at the start to 15th by the finish — powered by the 11th-fastest women's second-half split.
• A tight cluster of five athletes — Courtney Sams through Amanda Wong — finished 3rd through 6th in a span of just 1:35, from 1:36:19 to 1:37:54.

Roberts didn't just win the F25-29 race — she hunted the entire women's field. She opened conservatively, sitting 6th among women through the first half, but her second half was something else: the 3rd-fastest women's split over the back 13.1 miles carried her all the way to 2nd in the women's race overall. At a 6:32/mi average across the full course, she was running at a level that dwarfed the rest of the F25-29 field.

Persky made her own move late, converting a 12th-place women's standing at the penultimate checkpoint into 9th by the finish — her 6th-fastest women's closing split doing the damage. The gap from Persky back to 3rd-place Courtney Sams (1:36:19, 7:21/mi) was a substantial 3:08, and Sams herself was quietly strong, posting the 13th-fastest women's second-half split to finish ahead of a charging field.

The real chase story belonged to Boyle. Sitting 36th among women at the opening checkpoint, she steadily worked her way through the pack, cracking the top 15 women by the tape with the 11th-fastest second-half split. She edged Jessica Nyquist (5th, 1:37:32) by just eight seconds — Nyquist had actually posted the 18th-fastest women's first-half split to build her position, but Boyle's back-half surge proved the difference. Behind them, Wong (6th, 1:37:54) rounded out a competitive top six across 629 finishers in this group.