SF Half Marathon F60-64: Khastgir Runs Away With It

• Anupa Khastgir won in 2:02:06 (9:19/mi), finishing more than 6 minutes clear of the field in a 36-finisher F60-64 race.
• Mary Haugen closed fastest among the top five, posting the 477th-fastest women's split on the final stretch (10.65M→Finish) to hold 2nd in 2:08:04.
• Audrey Sato and Hongyu Xie were separated by just 61 seconds at 3rd (2:09:34) and 4th (2:10:35), with Xie making up ground late via the stronger closing split.
• The top six all finished within 10:32 of each other; the gap from 6th to 7th was only 19 seconds (Pam Rubly, 2:12:18; Liliana Nordbakk, 2:12:37).

Anupa Khastgir of Oklahoma City owned the F60-64 race from start to finish. Running a 9:19/mi average, she crossed in 2:02:06 — a margin of six minutes over second place that left no doubt about the outcome. Her moves data tells a story of a controlled but assertive effort: she tracked through the women's field steadily, holding her position in the early miles before the field naturally sorted itself around her. Her split on the 2.13M–6.62M stretch ranked 264th among all women — a strong mid-race push that helped cement the gap.

Behind her, the race was considerably more dramatic. Mary Haugen, racing on home turf in San Francisco, started deep in the women's field — sitting more than 1,000th among women early on — and spent the entire race climbing. By the finish she had surged to 2nd in F60-64 with a 2:08:04, and her 477th-fastest women's split on the final leg confirmed she was still accelerating when it mattered most. Audrey Sato of Belmont ran a steadier race to claim 3rd in 2:09:34, while Hongyu Xie of Phoenix mirrored Haugen's late charge, moving from deep in the women's field to 4th (2:10:35) on the strength of a faster closing split — not enough to catch Sato, but a clear sign of late-race strength.

Meryl Brown (5th, 2:12:09) and Pam Rubly (6th, 2:12:18) were separated by just nine seconds, with Liliana Nordbakk another 19 seconds back in 7th (2:12:37). Then came a notable gap before Irina Shchemeleva (8th, 2:18:21) led a cluster of four finishers — Kimberly Lorenz, Barbara Lodes, and Sylvia Negrete — all within 44 seconds of each other between 2:18:21 and 2:19:05. Across all 36 finishers, the F60-64 field delivered a full range of efforts across San Francisco's demanding 13.1 miles.