Women's Half Marathon: Correa Controls from Gun to Tape

• Sarah Correa wins in 1:25:17 (6:31/mi), never relinquishing the lead and posting the fastest women's split on the Out & Back→Lap 1 segment.
• Allison Cronk finishes 3rd in 1:35:00 — just 25 seconds behind 2nd-place Katie Trent — one year after winning this same race in 1:34:26.
• Allison Orofino, 64, rockets from 9th to 4th across the final segments, posting the 4th-fastest women's split on Out & Back→Lap 1.
• Geneva Jerwers, 13, crosses in 2:12:20 (10:06/mi) to finish 17th among 40 women — a standout result for the youngest finisher in the field.

Sarah Correa was never in doubt. The Folsom runner led wire-to-wire — 1st among women at every checkpoint — and backed it up with the fastest women's split on the Out & Back→Lap 1 segment, finishing in 1:25:17 at a crisp 6:31/mi pace through Sacramento's foggy morning air. The margin to second place was over nine minutes, which tells you everything about how cleanly she ran this race.

Behind her, the battle for the podium was genuinely compelling. Katie Trent of Reno moved from 3rd to 2nd during the race and held on for a 1:34:35 finish. Allison Cronk, who won this very race in 2025 in 1:34:26, came home 3rd in 1:35:00 — posting the 3rd-fastest women's split on the Out & Back→Lap 1 segment and running almost exactly her previous winning time, only this year the competition was a step sharper. Defending a title is hard; Cronk showed she belongs right at the front regardless.

The most dramatic move of the back half belonged to Allison Orofino, 64, of Cameron Park. She was 9th among women early, climbed to 5th by mid-race, and ultimately finished 4th in 1:52:20 — a strong close that also earned her the 4th-fastest women's split on that opening segment. Lisa Balestrini, 61, made a similar charge, moving from 11th to 5th with the 5th-fastest women's split on Lap 1→Finish, crossing in 1:54:52. Patricia Salmon, also 60, rounded out the 60-and-older contingent with a 7th-place finish in 1:55:56 — nearly six minutes faster than her 8th-place showing at this same race in 2025.