Way Too Cool 10M: Alice Curley dominates the F30-39 field

• Alice Curley won the F30-39 age group in 1:29:52 (8:59/mi), holding 1st among women from start to finish and posting the fastest women's split on the Fire Station→HWY 49 segment.
• Tracy Morrison and Chantra Siggard were separated by just 4:35 at 2nd and 3rd, with Siggard actually edging Morrison on the Fire Station→HWY 49 split (7th vs. 8th fastest among women).
• Sarah Simmons and Laura Wisdom both clocked 2:08:41 — but the clock had more to say: Simmons finished 6th, Wisdom 7th, separated by just 0.31 seconds.
• The F30-39 field spanned 1:28:46 from first to last, a reminder of how wide the range of effort looks across 16 finishers on a warm March day in Cool.

Alice Curley made this race look almost unfair. Running 8:59/mi across 10 miles in 69°F heat, the Truckee 34-year-old led among women from the opening segment to the finish line and never let anyone threaten that position. Her fastest women's split on the Fire Station→HWY 49 stretch was the exclamation point — she wasn't just ahead, she was moving through that section better than any woman on the course.

Behind her, Tracy Morrison (1:47:36) and Chantra Siggard (1:52:11) ran their own quiet duel for the podium. Morrison held 2nd in the age group, but Siggard had the quicker legs on the Fire Station→HWY 49 segment — 7th-fastest among women to Morrison's 8th — suggesting she may have left a little time on the table elsewhere on the course. Morgan Karalash and Lauren Johnson rounded out the top five, separated by under five minutes, with Johnson edging into Cameron Park pride at 2:07:13.

The sharpest drama of the day, though, belonged to 6th and 7th. Sarah Simmons of Auburn and Laura Wisdom of Midpines crossed the line in a near-identical 2:08:41 — with just 0.31 seconds between them after ten miles of racing. That's not a photo finish; that's a ten-mile photo finish. Both women can honestly claim they ran the same race. The clock just had the final word.