Seventy-Nine Oceanside Residents Run Rock 'n' Roll Marathon

Almost 25,000 people ran, walked or wheeled the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Sunday on the 26-mile course that weaved its way throughout San Diego. About 7,000 people competed in the marathon. 

Seventy-nine people from Oceanside ran in the marathon, with 234 people competing in the half marathon. 

Among Oceanside residents Douglas Gardner, 30, was the highest male finisher, running the marathon in 2:57:58, good for 47th overall. The highest female finisher was Alicia Lagendijk, 32. She finished with a time of 3:32:46.

In the half marathon, the fastest male finisher was Dave Wade, 47, and the highest female finisher was Renee Michaelson, 43.

The youngest Oceanside resident to run the marathon was Jason Burds, 20. The oldest runners were Abner Tayag and Pat Selig, both 56. 

The top overall finisher in the marathon was Simon Njoroge, 32, from Kenya. He ran the race in 2:15:00 and had a blistering pace of 5:09. The top female marathon runner was Natalia Sergeeva, 28, from Russia, who ran in 2:35:05 with a 5:55 pace. 

History was made in the half marathon, as Bernard Koech, a 25-year-old Kenyan, finished the race in 58 minutes, 41 seconds. His pace of 4:29 per mile is the fastest half marathon ever run in the United States.