F60-64 at Two Cities: Uribe Wins a Tight Battle at the Front

• Romelia Uribe took the F60-64 title in 58:26 (9:24/mi), finishing ahead of fellow Fresnan Karen Camoroda by 31 seconds.
• Karen Camoroda pushed hard in the second half, posting the 62nd-fastest women's split from 1M to finish — but Uribe's 58th-fastest held the edge.
• Janet Teixeira rounded out the podium in 1:00:55, the only finisher to crack the 61-minute barrier after the top two.
• Cris Stilwell was the biggest mover in reverse — entering the final stretch ranked 84th among women, she faded to 153rd, while Krystyna Sarro made a similar slide from 123rd to 149th.

Romelia Uribe and Karen Camoroda turned the F60-64 race into a genuine two-woman contest. Both are 61-year-olds from Fresno, both were climbing through the women's field as the race wore on, and in the end only 31 seconds separated them at the line. Uribe's 9:24/mi average was the defining number — consistent enough to hold off Camoroda's charge and claim the group win comfortably. Camoroda, for her part, moved from 134th among women at the 1-mile mark all the way to 75th by the finish, a surge that nearly closed the gap but not quite.

Janet Teixeira completed the podium with a 1:00:55 — nearly two minutes back of Camoroda but a solid effort, and she too was a strong finisher, climbing from 178th among women to 104th over the closing miles. The real positional drama belonged to Cris Stilwell, who had been running 84th among women through the early going before fading to 153rd by the end, finishing 5th in the group in 1:04:36. Krystyna Sarro told a similar story just ahead of her in 4th.

Behind the top five, a wide spread of times told the story of 19 women tackling 10K on a warm Fresno morning — 74°F and clear skies that would have made every minute earned. Kelly Irwin in 6th crossed at 1:14:30, and the field stretched all the way to Victoria Mitchell's 1:57:36 to close out the group. Every finisher from 6th through 19th crossed the line, and that's a field worth celebrating on its own terms.