San Francisco Marathon 10K — M65-69: Haake Dominates on the Bay

• Douglas Haake won the M65-69 race in 47:31 (7:39/mi), finishing more than 6 minutes ahead of second place.
• Habtom Micael took second in 53:50 (8:40/mi); Tom Bottorff, 69, rounded out the podium in 56:56 (9:10/mi).
• The spread across all 12 finishers ran from Haake's 47:31 to Steve Hung's 1:32:38 — a gap of over 45 minutes across the M65-69 field.
• Gabel Gloria and Foster Lowe finished back-to-back in 9th and 10th — 1:27:22 and 1:27:24 — separated by just two seconds.

Douglas Haake, 65, from San Francisco, made the city's own course feel like home turf. His 7:39/mi pace was a full minute per mile faster than second-place Habtom Micael's 8:40/mi, and that gap only grew over 6.2 miles. By the finish, Haake's 47:31 stood more than six minutes clear of the field — a commanding wire-to-wire statement in a cool, overcast morning along the bay.

Micael, 66, from Monte Vista, held second solidly in 53:50, while Tom Bottorff — the oldest man on the podium at 69 and making the trip down from Petaluma — claimed third in 56:56. Fred Pressley, also 69, pushed to within a minute of Bottorff, crossing in 59:59 at 9:39/mi to take fourth. Howell Chan, 67, rounded out the top five in 1:01:25, and Scott Anderson, 65, finished sixth in 1:04:05.

The back half of the M65-69 field told its own story. Philip Butt (7th, 1:10:44) and Jayaraj Dakshinamoorthy (8th, 1:13:26) ran their own separate battles well off the front. Then came perhaps the tightest finish of the day in this group: Gloria Gabel crossed 9th in 1:27:22 and Foster Lowe followed in 10th just two seconds later at 1:27:24 — a near-identical finish time masking whatever drama unfolded in those final strides. Andrei Roschkowsky (11th, 1:29:35) and Steve Hung (12th, 1:32:38) completed the 12-man field, all earning their finisher's hardware on a damp San Francisco morning.