F1-14 Half Marathon: Beckerman takes the title at 13

• Riley Beckerman wins in 1:35:54 (7:19/mi), the fastest in the F1-14 field of 14 — edging runner-up Claire Morrissey by 54 seconds.
• Claire Morrissey ran the stronger second half, climbing from 617th to 478th among women on the 5.5M→10.8M segment — the 397th-fastest split on that stretch in the women's field — to lock up 2nd in 1:36:48.
• Quinn Boatright secured 3rd in 1:43:02, though she faded on the back half, dropping from 469th to 830th among women on that same segment.
• A tight five-way cluster from 4th through 8th: Grace Coutsoftides (1:46:35), Siena Therriault (1:46:45), Isabella Juarez (1:47:59), Sofia Felix (1:48:15), and Ava Hendricks (1:51:35) all finished within five minutes of each other.

Thirteen-year-old Riley Beckerman of Aliso Viejo set the pace from the front, crossing in 1:35:54 at a 7:19/mi clip. The story of her race, though, is in the second half: she held her position well enough to win, but her 5.5M→10.8M split ranked 572nd among all women — a hint that she may have gone out hard and managed the back half rather than surged through it.

That's exactly where Claire Morrissey made her move. The 14-year-old from Santa Ana was outside the top 600 among women at the halfway mark, then turned in the 397th-fastest women's split on that middle segment to reel in time and finish 2nd in 1:36:48. It wasn't quite enough to catch Beckerman, but it was a genuine charge — and the 54-second gap at the line flatters how much ground Morrissey covered in the second half.

Quinn Boatright of Rancho Santa Margarita rounded out the podium in 1:43:02 (7:52/mi), though she ran the back half in reverse — fading from 469th to 830th among women on the middle segment. She held on for 3rd, but the door was open for the pack behind her. Grace Coutsoftides (1:46:35) and Siena Therriault (1:46:45) both moved up strongly in the second half, finishing 4th and 5th respectively and separated by just ten seconds.

Joanna Megallon of Victorville crossed 14th and last in 3:06:56 — completing 13.1 miles at 14, which is the point regardless of the clock.