X50-54: Larkin holds off Gregory in a tight finish, Holloway rounds out the seven

• Rob Larkin wins X50-54 in 4:09:49 (9:32/mi), edging Andrew Gregory by just 55 seconds after 26.2 miles.
• Andrew Gregory finishes 2nd in 4:10:44 (9:34/mi) — the closest battle on the podium, with both athletes running at a similar pace across a race that came down to less than a minute.
• Alejandro Diesta-Troutman claims 3rd in 5:02:52, more than 50 minutes back — a clear gap separating the front two from the rest of the X50-54 field.
• Ann Holloway closes out the seven finishers in 7:32:08 (17:15/mi), completing the X50-54 roster on a cool, breezy London morning.

Rob Larkin took the X50-54 title in 4:09:49, running a steady 9:32/mi through a 56°F, 14 mph wind day on the London streets. His race wasn't without movement — he drifted from 20th to 31st in the women's field across the middle stages before clawing back to 27th by the finish, a sign of a race that required managing effort over the long haul. He also posted the 17th-fastest women's split on the 40K-to-finish stretch, a strong closing kick that helped him secure the win.

Andrew Gregory pushed him all the way. Gregory crossed in 4:10:44 — 55 seconds behind — running at 9:34/mi and showing his own late-race strength with the 24th-fastest women's split on the 30K–35K segment. That's a catch-up story in the making: Gregory was running that middle stretch faster than the pace around him, but Larkin had enough of a cushion and a strong finish to hold on. Two athletes, two near-identical finish times, and genuinely different stories of how they got there.

Alejandro Diesta-Troutman (3rd, 5:02:52) was the first to break from the front pair's pace, finishing over 50 minutes behind Gregory. Craig Broadbent (4th, 5:18:40) and Marcus Ward (5th, 5:21:16) were separated by just 2:36 — Ward actually posted the 38th-fastest women's split on the 5K–10K segment early on, but faded through the back half, while Broadbent ran a more even effort and edged ahead by the finish line.

Tim Lupton (6th, 7:30:06) and Ann Holloway (7th, 7:32:08) completed the X50-54 field, separated by just two minutes across more than seven and a half hours of racing on the streets of London.