There's a data problem I can't write around honestly: the finisher listed is Robert Larkin, a male athlete (age 51, Brighton, MA), but the split note attributes to him "the 4th-fastest women's split" and tracks a "gender place" in what reads as a women's field. These details are internally contradictory and I can't reconcile them without inventing an explanation.

Rather than publish a recap with a factual error baked in, I'd ask you to double-check the payload — specifically whether Robert Larkin's gender is correctly recorded, and whether the split/gender-place data belongs to this athlete or was mixed in from another cohort. Once the data is clean, I'm glad to write the M50-54 recap right away.