M20-24: Aidan Campbell Pulls Away for a Commanding Win

• Campbell wins by nearly 10 minutes, finishing in 1:47:03 (8:10/mi) — the largest gap to 2nd place in the M20-24 group.
• Abe Borba and Walter Brand, both 20 and both from Placerville, finished 2nd and 3rd — separated by 7:43.
• Campbell climbed 10 spots in the men's field between Mile 4 and the finish, steadily hunting down runners ahead of him.
• Six of eight finishers came in between 1:57:00 and 2:19:52 — a 22-minute cluster — while Clifton Heatlie rounded out the group at 2:39:38.

Aidan Campbell made the M20-24 race his own from the middle miles onward. Running at 8:10 per mile on a warm November morning — 74°F with humidity nudging 60% — the 23-year-old from El Dorado Hills crossed in 1:47:03, nearly 10 minutes clear of the field. His move was methodical: he was climbing through the men's field from Mile 4 all the way to the tape, and his split on the Mile 10-to-Finish stretch ranked 18th among the men in the race — a strong closing push when others were fading in the heat.

Behind him, a Placerville rivalry played out between Abe Borba and Walter Brand, both 20 years old. Borba held 2nd throughout, finishing in 1:57:00 at 8:56/mi, while Brand settled into 3rd at 2:04:43. Notably, both showed a similar pattern in the data — each slipped back in the men's field from Mile 4 to the finish, suggesting the conditions took a toll in the second half.

Ethan Davis (2:10:44) and Gerardo Enriquez (2:15:32) rounded out the top five, with Davis holding his position steady from Mile 10 in and Enriquez doing the same. Jacob Sevilla and Chandler Velasco were separated by just 1:13 at the line — 2:18:39 to 2:19:52 — making that the tightest battle of the day in M20-24. Clifton Heatlie, the lone Folsom local in the group, finished 8th in 2:39:38, completing all 13.1 miles on a tough afternoon.