F60-64: Helen Campbell Wins San Francisco in 1:51:54

• Helen Campbell (1:51:54, 8:32/mi) took the F60-64 title by more than four and a half minutes over Ling-Yuan Kong (2nd, 1:56:22).
• Closest battle of the day: Kelly Rexroat (3rd, 2:04:37) and Angie Chong (4th, 2:04:54) were separated by just 17 seconds after 13.1 miles through San Francisco's hills and 14 mph winds.
• 60 finishers completed the F60-64 race, with the top 20 ranging from 1:51:54 down to 2:28:38.

Helen Campbell, 60, making the trip from Wokingham, England, controlled this race from the front. She entered the women's field as high as 90th among all women before a mid-race stretch through miles 8–10 pushed her back toward 131st — the course's hilliest, windiest stretch biting into everyone's splits — but she answered. By the final miles she had climbed back to 97th among all women, closing in 8:32/mi to win the F60-64 field by 4:28 over Ling-Yuan Kong. That's not a close race at the top; it's a wire-to-wire statement.

Kong, 63, representing San Francisco itself, ran a composed 1:56:22 (8:53/mi) for a clear runner-up finish. She too weathered the same mid-race drift in the women's standings before steadying through the final miles — a solid effort on a course that punishes anyone who goes out too hard in the fog and wind off the bay.

The real drama unfolded a tier below, where Scottsdale's Kelly Rexroat (3rd, 2:04:37, 9:30/mi) and San Jose's Angie Chong (4th, 2:04:54, 9:32/mi) ran essentially the same race for 13.1 miles and arrived 17 seconds apart. Notably, Chong posted the 205th-fastest women's split on the 8M–9.6M segment while Rexroat clocked the 226th — meaning Chong was the faster runner on that stretch, but Rexroat held enough of a cushion built earlier to stay third. Lucy Cheng (5th, 2:06:56) and Katherine Glista (6th, 2:07:31) rounded out a competitive top six within a span of about five minutes.

Paola Miolato of Padova (7th, 2:09:55) led a strong international contingent that included Huiruo Wang from Wuxi (8th, 2:10:40), giving this F60-64 field a genuinely global flavor on the streets of San Francisco.