Associated Press

Last update: October 5, 2008 - 2:15 PM

ST. PAUL - Running through a cold and steady drizzle, Fernando Cabada waited 20 miles to make his move.

Crossing under the Lake Street Bridge in Minneapolis, Cabada pulled away from a dense pack to win the men's division of the Twin Cities Marathon Sunday. Olga Glok won the women's division.

"At 20 miles I just got real mad and said, 'You're tough, attack these hills, you've done all the work, you're running for a lot of people today,'" said Cabada, 26. "All the people who said I couldn't do it, that I'm a has-been. I did it for a lot of things."

He finished in 2:16:32, one minute and six seconds ahead of second place finisher and Minnesota-native Matt Gabrielson.

"He ran smart and he ran tough, and Fernando deserves that more than anybody," Gabrielson said.

Glok, of Russia, won her first career marathon in a dramatic finish, making up a 10-second deficit in the final mile to win by 11 seconds, finishing in 2:32:38. It was a moment of excitement for a finish-line crowd thinned because of the weather.

"It was difficult to be in that situation," Glok, 25, said through a translator. "It's difficult with the distance to make up, but the cold and the rain makes it even more difficult."