Long Beach Half Marathon 2025: Colehamer rules the M75-79 field

• Glenn Colehamer (75, Huntington Beach) won M75-79 in 2:12:51 — a 10:08/mi average that put more than 23 minutes between him and second place.
• Raymond Lee (76, Torrance) claimed second in 2:36:40, with Jim Doti (79, Villa Park) rounding out the podium in 2:45:02 — the two separated by just over eight minutes.
• The field spanned nearly 1:47 from Colehamer's winning time to Thomas Fleming Jr.'s 3:59:51 in 13th — a testament to the range of effort across 13 finishers in this group.
• Jim Grimes (3:20:01), Thomas Motter (3:22:10), and Robert Palmer (3:23:46) ran the tightest cluster of the race, separated by just 3:45 across three finishers.

Glenn Colehamer made his intentions clear from the gun and never let up. Tracking his movement through the men's field tells the story: he moved from 2,931st among men at the early checkpoint to 2,779th at 10.8 miles, then surged to 2,597th by the finish — steadily picking off runners across the back half of the course at a 10:08/mi clip. That finishing-segment push, ranked 2,061st among men on the 10.8M-to-finish stretch, underscores that he was accelerating while others faded. At 75, he ran a race that left the rest of M75-79 well in his wake.

Raymond Lee and Jim Doti ran measured, consistent races for the silver and bronze. Lee's 11:57/mi earned him second in 2:36:40, while Doti — the oldest podium finisher at 79 — crossed in 2:45:02 at 12:35/mi. Both were climbing through the men's field in the second half, each gaining hundreds of places between the midpoint and the finish line.

The middle of the pack had its own drama. Laurence Arnold (75, Hacienda Heights) finished fifth in 3:04:09 but was actually losing ground in the final miles — his men's ranking slipped from 5,017th at the early check to 5,187th at the finish, a sign that the 14:03/mi pace cost him late. Just behind him, Grimes, Motter, and Palmer ran nearly in lockstep — 3:20:01, 3:22:10, and 3:23:46 — three men separated by less than four minutes across three spots.

Steven Miller (3:36:23), Glenn Higaki (3:42:50), William Oberholzer (3:53:11), and Thomas Fleming Jr. (3:59:51) completed the field, with Fleming just sneaking under the four-hour mark in 13th to close out the M75-79 story at Long Beach.