San Francisco 10K 2025 — F35-39: Albornoz Runs Away With It

• Vanessa Albornoz wins in 40:27 (6:31/mi), finishing 5:08 ahead of runner-up Penelope Ferraro — a commanding margin across a 284-woman field.
• Ferraro and Haensel trade places late: Ferraro held 14th among women through the final segment; Haensel slipped from 16th to 18th, but the gap between them at the line was just 38 seconds (45:35 vs. 46:13).
• Albornoz posted the 5th-fastest women's closing split (4.62M to Finish), showing she didn't just go out hard — she finished hard too.
• Five finishers within 52 seconds of each other from 5th through 9th place (48:08 to 49:18), making the mid-pack battle one of the tightest stretches of the race.

Vanessa Albornoz of Boulder made this look like a different race than everyone else was running. Her 40:27 at 6:31/mi was a full 5:08 faster than second place — and she backed it up with the 5th-fastest women's closing split in the field, meaning she wasn't just managing a lead, she was pressing it. She moved from 3rd to 4th among all women during the race (the moves data reflects overall gender standing), suggesting the top of the F35-39 field was running with the very best women on the course.

Behind her, San Francisco's own Penelope Ferraro claimed second in 45:35 (7:20/mi), steady throughout — she held 14th among women from the midpoint through the finish. Jen Haensel, also of San Francisco, was 38 seconds back in third at 46:13 (7:26/mi), though she faded slightly in the closing segment, slipping from 16th to 18th among women. The 7:20 vs. 7:26 per-mile difference was real, and Ferraro's stronger finish is what separated them.

Alyssa Whitwell (47:14) and Tara Kalmanson (48:08) rounded out the top five, with Kalmanson actually posting the 28th-fastest women's closing split — faster than Whitwell's 41st — meaning she was closing the gap late, but the 54-second deficit entering that final stretch was too much to overcome. Sarah Berger (48:28), Cristin Jefferson (49:12), and Anastasia Korolkova (49:18) clustered tightly in sixth through eighth, separated by just 46 seconds across three finishers in a field of 284.