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Oak Park’s Jens Conzen, Bolingbrook’s Sydney Watkins top winners in 2026 Starved Rock Country Marathon · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oak Park's Jens Consen, Bowling Brooks, Sydney Watkins top winners
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  in twenty twenty six Starve Rock Country Marathon. Written by J. T. Penalty,
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. The twenty twenty sixth edition of
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  the Starve Rock Country Marathon, the eleventh running of the event,
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  which began twenty fourteen, took place Saturday, beginning and ending
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  in downtown Ottawa, with a twenty six point two mile
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  course that took participants west through Starvrock State Park. One
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  hundred twenty five participants completed the full marathon, with Oak
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  Park's YenS Consen the overall male winner in three hours,
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  thirteen minutes thirty four point nine seconds and Bowling Brooks
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  Sydney Watkins the top female finisher in a time of
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  three sixteen fifty seven point eight. The male top ten
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  also included runner up Alberto Sallas three nineteen thirty point six,
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  Paul d'Avila three hours, twenty minutes and zero second seven,
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  Juan Valdez three twenty five fifty nine point zero, fifth
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  place finisher Arthur Santorro three twenty eight fifty three point three,
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  Jorge Carmona three thirty one thirty six point six, Ian
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  Mole three thirty two thirty two point seven, eighth place
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  finisher Luke Tornell three hours, thirty three minutes and six
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  seconds five, Jordan Gonzalez three thirty three thirty one point seven,
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  and Cooper Williams three thirty six fourteen point one. The
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  female top ten behind Watkins included runner up Linda Clark
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  three thirty thirty eight point seven, Kara Hodges three forty
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  four thirty eight point seven, Amelia Clark three fifty four
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  thirty two point nine, fifth place runner Savannah Passion three
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  fifty seven thirty seven point point four, Kim Weidner Fey
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  three fifty seven forty eight point three, Jessica Sun four
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  ten twenty six point two, eighth place finisher Natalie Martin
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  four seventeen thirty one points one, Kim Davis four twenty
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  three twenty seven point two, and Jennifer Stopka four forty
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  two twenty four point zero. Ottawa's own Lucas Hoffman won
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  the Starved Rock Country Half Marathon by four and a
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  half minutes with a thirteen point one mile run of
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  one hour fifteen minutes twenty seven point nine seconds. John
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  Thomas Hinchin of Chicago was the runner up with area entrance.
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  Christian Skags of Winona third, one twenty two fifty six
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  point nine, Shawn Manley of Ottawa fourth, one twenty seven
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  thirty eight point eight, Casey Bailey of Ottawa ninth, one
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  thirty four twenty one point seven. R. J. Hermasillo of
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  Ogglesby eleventh, one thirty four fifty three point five, Adrian
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  Hermasillo of Ogglesby one thirty five forty eight point zero,
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  Cayden Kronkrete of Ottawa one thirty six eleven point five,
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  Katie Marshall of LaSalle twenty first overall, second female finisher
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  one forty forty three point one, Quinn del Valley of
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  Oglesby twenty second one forty one two seventeen point three,
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  and Donald Keisig Junior of Ottawa twenty seventh one forty
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  two forty six point zero, finishing in the top thirty
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  in the field of three seventy three finishers. Oswego's Mark
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  Cook forty three zero five six was first overall and
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  Ottawa's Kim Foster forty three thirty four point four second overall.
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  And the top female finisher in the day's ten thousand,
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  which also saw Straighter's Alex Garcia forty eight zero nine
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  five place fourth. The star Rock Country five thousand was
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  won by Lasaless Nicholas Finzel in nineteen minutes forty six
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  point one seconds. Marseille's Chadcovash fourth twenty eight fifty eight
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  point two and Ottawa's Lucas Feribau fifth twenty one ten
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  point two also finished in the top five, with Ottawa's
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  Ocean Fowler twenty three fifty five point zero the top
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  female finisher, Leland's Abagael Kuski twenty six twelve point six
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  the female runner up, and Straighter's Choe Baker twenty six
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  seventeen point three third. Full results can be found at
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  Racing expect Dictations dot com.