Date: September 13, 2025 Participant: Ruthie Platts #5198 Race: 2025 REVEL Big Cottonwood Half Marathon Distance: 13.1 miles

Increased Consistency on the Course Ruthie Platts from Pleasant Grove, UT completed the 2025 REVEL Big Cottonwood Half Marathon with an overall time of 3:08:27 and an average pace of 14:23 min/mile. Throughout the race, Ruthie demonstrated consistent pacing, maintaining splits largely around the 14 min/mile mark, despite a noticeable deceleration after the second mile. Her strongest split was during mile 5, which she completed in 11:45 min/mile, the fastest of the event for her. Ruthie was part of the team "Still Inexperienced" and showed improvements in maintaining a steadier pace across the distance compared to her previous race, where she finished at 2:55:25 with a quicker average pace of 13:23 min/mile. For future races, focusing on endurance and pacing strategy in the later miles could help in achieving a faster finish time. Her experience in this marathon adds solid groundwork to build upon for her next race.