M65-69: Siu Hung Chau Runs Away from the Field in San Francisco

• Siu Hung Chau (68, Queens, NY) won the M65-69 race in 1:45:33 at an 8:03/mi pace — more than nine and a half minutes clear of second place.
• Francis Enomoto (68, Sunnyvale, CA) ran a strong second in 1:55:14 (8:47/mi), with Joe Chu (67, Fremont, CA) third in 2:00:19 (9:11/mi).
• Glenn Farris (66, San Francisco, CA) posted the 147th-fastest men's split on the 8M→9.6M segment on his way to fourth in 2:02:00 — the strongest move in that stretch among the top five.
• Eleven finishers — from 11th through the listed 20th — finished within a tight five-minute window between 2:21:04 and 2:28:04.

Siu Hung Chau made the trip from Queens count. Running at 8:03 per mile across San Francisco's famously hilly 13.1 miles — in 59°F air and a stiff 14 mph wind — the 68-year-old was simply in a different gear from everyone else in the M65-69 field. His gender-place tracking tells the story of an athlete who kept climbing: from 316th among men at the first checkpoint all the way to 210th by mile 10.5, before settling at 252nd at the finish as the course's later miles took their toll on pace. He also posted the 102nd-fastest men's split on the 8M→9.6M stretch — a sharp mid-race effort that underscored just how well he maintained his rhythm through the heart of the course.

Behind Chau, Enomoto and Chu ran a clean, composed race for the podium. Enomoto (1:55:14) moved steadily forward throughout, climbing from 813th among men at the gun to 636th at the line, with the 511th-fastest men's split on the 10.5M→12M segment. Chu (2:00:19) had a tougher middle stretch — dropping as deep as 1,169th among men around the 9.6M mark — before rallying back to 950th by the finish, a genuine recovery in the back half.

Glenn Farris, running his home city at 9:18/mi, made the most compelling move of the chase pack: his 147th-fastest men's split on the 8M→9.6M segment was the sharpest burst in that segment among the top five, and he ultimately closed out fourth in 2:02:00. John Barton (65, Katy, TX) rounded out the top five in 2:06:30, followed by Ross Siragusa (2:08:48) and Matthias Passlack (2:12:49) in sixth and seventh. Across the full 40-finisher M65-69 field, the depth was real — 11 runners packed into just seven minutes between 2:21 and 2:28.