SF Half Marathon F30-34: Arias Blazes to Victory in 1:19:59

• Egris Arias won the F30-34 race in 1:19:59 (6:06/mi), posting the 2nd-fastest women's split on the 4.9M–11.9M middle stretch to separate herself from the field.
• Cole White made the most dramatic move of the race, surging from 29th among women at 11.9 miles to finish 15th — her 12th-fastest women's split on the closing stretch powered a 5th-place finish in 1:27:59.
• Brianna Breimayer improved on her 2024 SF Half performance (8th among women, 1:33:33) by finishing 10th in 1:30:55 — a 2:38 improvement year over year.
• The podium was separated by just over 5 minutes: Arias in 1:19:59, Jacqueline Teran 2nd in 1:23:38, and Julie Perrone 3rd in 1:25:09.

Egris Arias, representing Panama, was the class of the F30-34 field from the gun. She held 6th among women through the opening 4.9 miles, then unleashed the 2nd-fastest women's split on the long middle segment — 4.9 to 11.9 miles — to vault to 2nd among women, a position she held to the finish. Her 6:06/mi average tells the story: this was a controlled, powerful run that put 3:39 between herself and runner-up Jacqueline Teran of Oakland.

Teran herself ran a smart, consistent race, holding 7th among women through the middle miles and finishing in 1:23:38 with the 8th-fastest women's split on that same middle stretch. San Francisco's Julie Perrone rounded out the podium in 1:25:09, anchoring her result with the 11th-fastest women's closing split (11.9M to finish) to hold off Nicole Sabes, who finished 4th in 1:27:22.

The most compelling late-race story belonged to Cole White of Walnut Creek. Sitting 29th among women at the 11.9-mile mark, she ran the 12th-fastest women's closing split to reel in nearly half the women ahead of her, finishing 5th in 1:27:59 at 6:43/mi. It was a closing kick that nearly — but not quite — caught Sabes, who finished 23 seconds ahead. Meanwhile, Brianna Breimayer quietly turned in one of the day's best personal narratives, clocking 1:30:55 to finish 10th and shave nearly two and a half minutes off her 2024 time on this same course.