Runners with native connections gained the lads’s and girls’s marathons Sunday as opponents wended their manner via metropolis streets for the Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon and half-marathon.
Runners – 22,000 registered for the occasion – set out on a path from Balboa Park that moved all through Mid-City neighborhoods earlier than heading to Mission Bay and again towards the downtown end close to Waterfront Park.
Kellen Blumberg gained the lads’s marathon in 2:28:19, whereas Bonnie Axman gained on the ladies’s facet in a time of two:48:38.
“My parents did this race 15 years ago and I always wanted to come back and do it myself,” Blumberg mentioned. “This is my first time running Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego and I’m glad I got the win.”
Axman has positioned among the many prime finishers in different Southern California races, together with a win at the Long Beach Marathon final yr. According to worldathletics.org, she additionally gained the Newport Beach Orange County Marathon two years in a row, 2014-15 and completed second within the Carlsbad Marathon in 2016.
In the lads’s marathon, Ryo Furukawa (Los Angeles) was second with a time of two:28:56 and Benjamin Freeman (New York City) adopted, ending in 2:36:10.
In the ladies’s marathon, Katya Olivares (Zapopan, Mexico) got here in second with a time of three:00:32 and Ali Tebbs of Coronado took third in 3:08:10.
In the half marathon, San Diegans completed within the two prime males’s spots.
Reid Buchanan gained, in a time of 1:04:01. Wan Won was second with a time of 1:04:57 and Rene Ortiz (Rio Verde, Mexico) adopted in 1:05:02.
In the ladies’s half marathon, Jane Bareikis (Crestwood, Ill.) was the winner with a last time of 1:14:48, with Nina Zarina (Arlington, Va.) ending in second with a time of 1:15:56, and Valerie Sanchez of Los Angeles coming in third in 1:17:14.
The Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon returned to its conventional June race date this weekend, simply seven months after the 2021 occasion, which was rescheduled because of the pandemic.
Already wanting ahead to subsequent yr? Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon weekend is about for June 3-4, 2023.