In fitting fashion, Tom Primrose was electric in the 2025 Suffolk County Marathon on Sunday.

Primrose, 29, a PSEG Long Island employee who lives in Hauppauge, won in 2 hours, 50 minutes, 30.97 seconds, clearing the competition by more than 3 1⁄2 minutes.

Though a current Long Islander, Primrose hails from Wappingers Falls — a village in the town of Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County — and is a 2014 graduate of Roy C. Ketcham High School. He ran four years of varsity cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field, but he did not have the desire to run in college.

Instead, Primrose chose the workforce. He went to Stony Brook University to study electrical engineering, ultimately earning his bachelor’s degree in May 2018 and his master’s degree in May 2019. From there,

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