Kaua'i Marathon F65-69: Lim Leads Wire to Wire in a Four-Woman Battle

• John Lim won the F65-69 age group in 6:03:29 (13:52/mi), finishing nearly 17 minutes clear of the field.
• Pamela Franklin and Lorraine Callis crossed in 6:20:01 — Franklin edging Callis by just 0.31 seconds for 2nd place.
• Lorraine Callis posted the strongest middle stretch among the group, climbing from 9th to as high as 101st among women on the 6.55 Miles–to–halfway segment before the field settled.
• Linda Okita of Honolulu rounded out the four-woman group in 6:50:08, nearly 30 minutes behind the winner.

John Lim of Reno made her intentions clear early and never relinquished the lead. Running at a steady 13:52 per mile through the warm, humid conditions on Kaua'i — 77°F with 69% humidity — she built a cushion that held all the way to the finish. Her strongest relative moment came on the 6.55 Miles–to–halfway segment, where she posted the 79th-fastest split among all women in the race. She crossed in 6:03:29, a commanding margin in a group where every minute was hard-earned.

Behind her, the race for 2nd was as close as it gets without being a tie. Pamela Franklin of Davison, MI and Lorraine Callis — also of Davison, MI — ran shoulder to shoulder for much of the back half, and the clock confirmed it: both finished in 6:20:01. But the timing left no ambiguity. Franklin took 2nd by 0.31 seconds. Callis had actually shown the stronger middle surge, moving up to 101st among women at the halfway mark, but Franklin reasserted herself on the HALF–to–22.25 Miles stretch, posting the 95th-fastest women's split on that segment to secure her place.

Linda Okita, the lone local in the group, represented Honolulu against a field that came from the mainland. She ran a steady if challenging 15:39-per-mile pace and finished in 6:50:08 — her best relative moment coming at the very end, where she posted the 100th-fastest women's split on the final stretch from 24.15 miles to the finish. In a race this demanding, finishing is its own achievement, and all four women in the F65-69 group did exactly that.