Updated: 12:01 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 | Posted: 5:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013
By Hal Habib
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH —
A Miami man and a western Maryland woman won the 10th running of the Palm Beach Marathon on Sunday morning.
Bryan Sharkey, 26, of Miami crossed the finish line first with an unofficial time of 2 hours, 43 minutes, 46 seconds.
Jennifer Sober, 40, of Deep Creek Lake, Md., was first in the women’s field with a time of 3:24:09.
The race — which took runners 26.2 miles from West Palm Beach to Lantana and back — took place on a humid day with temperatures in the mid-70s and and periods of light rain.
Sober said the weather was the warmest of any of the 17 marathons she has run. Because of the heat, she decided to start out slow to conserve energy and to speed up later.
“It was my first strategic marathon,” Sober said.
