Brain Games

medium Tim and his daughter, Carol, both ran in a 10K race. Tim finished in 49 minutes; Carol, in 54. Tim ran at a perfectly steady pace, but Carol lost steam and took exactly 25 percent more time to complete the second half of the race compared with the first. Tim’s wife and Carol’s mother, Marcie, stood at the halfway mark to cheer them on as they passed. Who went by her first?