Way Too Cool F30-39: Curley dominates while Simmons and Wisdom stage a photo-finish thriller

• Alice Curley wins by 17:44, finishing in 1:29:52 (8:59/mi) — and posting the fastest women's split on the Fire Station→HWY 49 segment.
• Closest finish of the day: Sarah Simmons (6th, 2:08:41) edges Laura Wisdom (7th, 2:08:41) by just 0.31 seconds.
• Tracy Morrison takes 2nd in 1:47:36, posting the 8th-fastest women's split on Fire Station→HWY 49 — while Chantra Siggard (3rd, 1:52:11) ran the 7th-fastest women's split on that same segment, meaning Siggard was the faster runner there despite finishing behind Morrison.
• 16 finishers spread across a 1:28:46 window, from Curley's 1:29:52 to Kaleen Jones's 2:58:38.

Alice Curley, 34, from Truckee, owned this race from wire to wire. She held 1st among women at every checkpoint, crossed in 1:29:52 at an 8:59/mi clip, and saved her sharpest work for the Fire Station→HWY 49 stretch — where she posted the fastest women's split in the entire field. Her margin of victory over 2nd-place Tracy Morrison was a commanding 17 minutes and 44 seconds. This wasn't a race; it was a statement.

Morrison (37, Modesto) held 7th among women throughout and brought it home in 1:47:36 to claim 2nd in the F30-39 group. Behind her, Chantra Siggard (34, Lincoln) finished 3rd in 1:52:11 — and here's the interesting wrinkle: Siggard ran the 7th-fastest women's split on Fire Station→HWY 49 to Morrison's 8th-fastest, meaning she was the stronger runner on that segment but couldn't fully close the gap Morrison had built earlier. Morgan Karalash (4th, 2:02:55) and Lauren Johnson (5th, 2:07:13) rounded out the top five.

Then came the race's most dramatic moment — 6th and 7th place. Sarah Simmons (Auburn) and Laura Wisdom (Midpines) both crossed in 2:08:41, but Simmons got there 0.31 seconds ahead to claim 6th. Elizabeth Meyer finished 8th in 2:13:15, followed by Evelyn Castro (9th, 2:16:13) and Emily Mills Ko (10th, 2:22:29), the field's eldest competitor at 39. Paola Martinez Guizado (11th, 2:24:51), Cecilia Zerda-Herrera (12th, 2:41:50), Marianne Utulo (13th, 2:53:17), Melanie Bazgan (14th, 2:56:58), Karla Hernández (15th, 2:57:03), and Kaleen Jones (16th, 2:58:38) completed a field that spanned nearly 90 minutes of racing on a warm 69°F morning in Cool.