Valerie Young is Top Novato Finisher in Bay to Breakers

Valerie Young was the top Novato finisher Sunday at the Zazzle Bay to Breakers run in San Francisco, taking 14^th in the female elite division and 160^th overall with a time of 45 minutes, 51 seconds.

The race winner was a 29-year-old man from Morocco, Ridouane Harroufi who ran the 7.46-mile race in 34:26,race officials said. Kenyan runner Lineth Chepkuri, 23, won the women's race for the third year in a row, according to race officials.

There were 43,399 official entries.

Brian Burbank, was next Novato finisher at No. 463 overall in 51:25, good for 110^th in his 40-49 age bracket. Ronald Poggi of Novato was in the same category and took 113^th among the 40-49 group and 476^th overall with his 51:37.

Novato’s Yanning Zhang, competing in the men’s 50-59 age group, was 61^st in his class and 717^th overall in 54:22.

Dan Marvier was the last Novato finisher to make the top 1,000, taking 881^st overall in 7:28, good for 22nd among men 30-39.