M40-49 at Way Too Cool 10M: Klingman Dominates in the Heat

• Michael Klingman won the M40-49 group in 1:25:47 (8:35/mi), more than 21 minutes clear of 2nd-place Jesus Enrique Pulido.
• Pulido (1:47:29, 10:45/mi) held 2nd comfortably, finishing 12:50 ahead of Tomas Tinoco de Rubira in 3rd.
• The tightest battle on the day: Tinoco de Rubira (2:00:19) and Scott Williamson (2:02:42) separated by just 2:23 for 3rd and 4th.
• Eleven men finished across a 1:23:00 spread, from Klingman's 1:25:47 to Joshua Granick's 2:48:46.

With temperatures pushing 69°F and humidity low but the sun out, the M40-49 group at Way Too Cool 10M was a study in contrasts. Michael Klingman, 45, from Fair Oaks, was simply in a different race. His 8:35/mi average was the kind of pace that puts daylight between you and the field early and keeps it there — and that's exactly what happened. He held 4th among the men throughout, never wavering, and posted the 4th-fastest split on the Fire Station→HWY 49 segment among the men, confirming he was running hard all the way through, not just managing a lead.

Behind Klingman, Jesus Enrique Pulido of Reno made a clean, controlled run of it — 8th among the men throughout and never losing ground — to take 2nd in 1:47:29. The real drama in the M40-49 group played out further back. Tomas Tinoco de Rubira (42, Orangevale) was 22nd among the men at the first checkpoint but climbed steadily, moving to 20th and then 18th by the finish, and his HWY 49→Finish segment was the 14th-fastest among the men on that stretch — a strong close that just held off Scott Williamson of El Dorado Hills.

Williamson (2:02:42) and George Little of Roseville (2:06:23) rounded out the top five, with Little showing the inverse pattern — 18th among the men early before fading to 23rd by the finish. The middle of the pack — three Scotts among the 6th-through-8th finishers (Rist, Carl, and not-quite-Scott Christian Gericke) — clustered between 2:13 and 2:16. Joshua Granick brought it home in 2:48:46 to complete all 11 finishers in the M40-49 group, a 16:53/mi pace that still means ten miles covered on a warm March morning in the Sierra foothills.