M30-34 Dominates the Cold: Combos Runs Away With It in Huntsville

• Theodore Combos won the M30-34 age group in 39:01 (6:17/mi) — a margin of 4 minutes 37 seconds over 2nd place, the largest gap on the podium.
• Nicholas Bianco and Patrick Bond were separated by just 9 seconds (44:16 vs. 44:25) in a tight battle for 3rd and 4th.
• Gerald Bradbury and Cody Fincher had the closest finish of the day: 7th and 8th were split by a single second — 48:18 to 48:19.
• 39 men finished in the M30-34 age group, racing through 29°F temperatures and a 16 mph wind in Huntsville.

Theodore Combos, 31, from Boerne, TX, didn't just win the M30-34 age group — he made it look like a different race entirely. His 39:01 at 6:17 per mile was nearly five minutes ahead of runner-up Christian Washburn, a gap that tells you everything about how the front of this field unfolded. While 39 men toed the line in biting cold and stiff wind, Combos ran through it like the conditions were irrelevant.

Behind him, Washburn (43:38) and Nicholas Bianco (44:16) had a comfortable cushion over the rest of the podium, but the real drama was between Bianco and Patrick Bond of New York. Nine seconds across 6.2 miles is razor-thin, and Bond — finishing 4th at 44:25 — will know exactly where those seconds went. Nathan Hay (5th, 45:28) and Nate Ennis (6th, 45:46) rounded out a competitive top six, all within a 90-second window of each other.

Further back, the race delivered one of its most dramatic moments between Gerald Bradbury and Cody Fincher. Bradbury crossed in 48:18, Fincher in 48:19 — one second separating 7th from 8th after nearly 50 minutes of running in 29-degree air. That's the kind of finish that makes a cold December morning worth it. The rest of the top 20 spread from just over 50 minutes to just over an hour, with 19 additional finishers completing a strong M30-34 showing in Huntsville.