M50-54 San Francisco Marathon: Moylan edges Weng in a Bay Area battle

• Adam Moylan (Oakland, CA) took the M50-54 title in 3:03:51 (7:01/mi), holding off Ray Weng by just 32 seconds.
• The top three — Moylan, Weng (3:04:23), and Li Yi (3:05:33) — were separated by fewer than 2 minutes across 26.2 miles.
• George Munoz (Aiea, HI) ran the fastest early split in the field, clocking the 117th-fastest women's split on the opening 1.81M→6.52M segment, but faded from 76th among men at the first checkpoint to 133rd by the finish — the most dramatic fade in the top five.
• Satoshi Moriizumi (Seattle, WA) ran the opposite race: starting 230th among men, he climbed all the way to 134th by the finish — the biggest charge of any top-five finisher.

The M50-54 race at the 2024 San Francisco Marathon played out under cool, humid skies — 56°F and 92% humidity — conditions that rewarded patience and consistency. Adam Moylan of Oakland ran exactly that race, barely budging through the middle miles before a strong late push carried him from 119th among men at 18 miles to 95th by the finish. His 7:01/mi average was the benchmark for the field of 219, and his 97th-fastest women's split on the 18M→24.69M stretch showed he was genuinely accelerating when others were hanging on.

Ray Weng of Los Altos gave Moylan the closest chase, finishing in 3:04:23 at 7:02/mi — a pace nearly identical to Moylan's on paper, but the 32-second margin tells the real story. Weng actually ran a faster late segment (the 86th-fastest women's split on 18M→24.69M, compared to Moylan's 97th), meaning he was closing — but not quite enough. Li Yi of Palo Alto rounded out the podium in 3:05:33, also surging late with the 104th-fastest women's split on that same stretch.

Behind the podium, the race split into two very different stories. George Munoz arrived from Hawaii and went out hard — 76th among men through the early miles — but the effort caught up with him, and he slipped to 133rd by the tape despite a 3:08:53 finish good for 4th. Satoshi Moriizumi of Seattle wrote the counter-narrative: buried 230th among men at the opening checkpoint, he ground his way through the field all day, finishing 5th in 3:09:04. Barry Fischer (3:09:43), Jacek Hibner (3:12:33), and Will Henderson (3:12:59) rounded out the top eight in a tight cluster, with just over nine minutes separating 4th through 8th place.