San Francisco Half Marathon 2024: Janet Green Wins the F70-74 Race

• Janet Green took the F70-74 title in 2:50:47 (13:02/mi), finishing more than four and a half minutes clear of the field.
• Barbara Wessen Chang ran the strongest closing stretch of anyone in the group, posting the 1,761st-fastest split among women on the final leg (10.65M to finish) to secure 2nd in 2:55:25.
• Jane Adams (3rd, 3:00:10) logged the 1,700th-fastest women's split on the 6.62M–7.12M segment — the sharpest single-segment effort in the F70-74 field.
• Linda Star rounded out the four-woman field in 3:03:35 (14:00/mi), a 12:48 gap back from Green's winning time.

Four women lined up to race 13.1 miles through San Francisco, and Janet Green, 70, from Courtenay, BC, made her intentions clear early. She held a steady 13:02/mi average across the full course and was never seriously threatened at the front, building a cushion that grew to over four and a half minutes by the finish tape. Her gender-place trajectory — drifting from 1,808th to 2,000th among women as the race wore on — reflects a field that simply got faster around her late, not a fade; she ran her own race from wire to wire.

Behind Green, the real drama was a quiet catch-up story. Barbara Wessen Chang, 72 (Sacramento), was actually gaining ground through the second half, climbing from 2,262nd among women at the first checkpoint all the way to 2,081st by the finish — a steady, sustained move that earned her 2nd place in 2:55:25. Her closing leg from 10.65M to the finish was the sharpest of any F70-74 runner on that stretch.

Jane Adams, 71 (Riverside), came home 3rd in 3:00:10, and her most notable moment came at the 6.62M–7.12M segment, where she posted the 1,700th-fastest women's split in the entire field — the single strongest split-speed effort among the four F70-74 competitors. Linda Star, 70 (Porter Ranch), finished 4th in 3:03:35, having slipped steadily through the women's standings from 2,040th to 2,171st, suggesting the hills of San Francisco took their toll as the miles mounted.