Running her first marathon, 24-year-old Paige Moore of Rancho Palos Verdes won the 41st annual Long Beach Marathon Sunday — with her time of 2 hours, 55 minutes, 13 seconds placing her 1:10 ahead of runner-up Selena Gallardo Dominguez.

“I never expected this to happen,” she said. “I was never the fastest, but hard work makes anything possible,” added Moore, who ran track at Cal Poly Pomona and graduated in May with a computer science degree.

“My legs were locking up (during the final five miles), but I pushed through,” she said.

The men’s marathon went to Esteban Prado of Huntington Beach in 2:26:32.

“I always wanted to do Long Beach,” Prado said. “The crowd and conditions were perfect.”

Prado was disqualified as the men’s winner of the 2024 OC Marathon for taking water from a family

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