SF Half Marathon M60-64: Witt Holds Off Dulchinos in a Wire-to-Wire Battle

• James Witt won the M60-64 race in 1:42:06 (7:47/mi), the fastest of 33 finishers in this group.
• 41-second gap separated 1st from 2nd — Witt over John Dulchinos (1:42:47) — but Dulchinos made up real ground in the final stretch with the 165th-fastest split in the field on the 10.9M–Finish segment.
• Maurizio Bonacini ran the most aggressive second half of the top five, climbing from outside the top 350 men to 281st by the finish — the clearest mover in the M60-64 field.
• The top five were separated by just 6:25, all finishing between 1:42 and 1:48 at a 7:47–8:17/mi range.

James Witt of San Jose ran a controlled, confident race through the San Francisco fog. Averaging 7:47/mi across the 13.1 miles, he held a steady position in the men's field throughout — his gender standing ticked slightly back through the middle miles before he reasserted himself in the final push to finish 183rd among the men. The 57°F, high-humidity morning was as flat a weather day as San Francisco offers, and Witt made the most of it.

Right behind him, John Dulchinos of Los Gatos crossed in 1:42:47. The two-minute gap that opened up in the mid-race miles tells the real story: Dulchinos slipped back through the men's field between the 5-mile and 10.9-mile marks before turning it on late, posting the 165th-fastest closing split in the entire field from 10.9 miles to the finish. That surge clawed back time on Witt but couldn't quite close the 41-second deficit. Kenny Crampton of Pacifica rounded out the podium in 1:45:30 (8:03/mi), also finishing with a strong closing leg — 197th-fastest in the field on that same final segment.

Maurizio Bonacini, 64, was the standout mover of the race. The San Francisco local was running well outside the top 300 men at the halfway point but steadily reeled in competitors over the back half, finishing 4th in 1:47:17 at 8:11/mi. Les Wong of Steamboat Springs, CO, showed a similar trajectory — 419th among men early on, climbing all the way to 304th by the tape — to take 5th in 1:48:31. Beyond the top five, Yan Wu (6th, 1:57:05) and Kevin Spier (7th, 2:01:15) held the next positions before the field spread out across the 2:10–2:32 range through 20th place and beyond.