Commack's Lauren Parrinello, Brooklyn's Thomas Woolway win respective divisions of Suffolk Marathon

Lauren Parrinello lay prone.

When the 24-year-old Commack native crossed the finish line, emotion overcame her. She slowly dropped to her knees, then laid flat, face-down, for a moment.

With good reason.

Parrinello had won the women’s Suffolk County Marathon on Sunday morning with a personal-best time of 2 hours, 58 minutes and 2 seconds.

It was an incredible individual achievement. Except, as Parrinello pointed out, family members, friends and colleagues had supported her as she trained for the race.

And it was those people whose images flashed through her mind as she crossed the finish line.

“You work hard for so many months for this, to leave it all out there. I’m just so happy. I want to say thank you to everyone who believed in me along the way,” a choked-up Parrinello said. “A team effort. Nobody can do it by themselves. Thank you.”

Parrinello’s time was 16 minutes better than the second- and third-place finishers, Lauren Clement (3:14:11) and Samantha Augeri (3:14:34).

“I’m very proud,” Parrinello said. “Obviously a little emotional. You work so hard for this, like I said before, and it just means the world to come out here and be able to perform like you want to. So I’m very happy and it [hasn’t] fully [sunk] in yet, but I know it’s going to later on.”

While Parrinello wept tears of joy, the emotion Thomas Woolway felt was something akin to sheepishness.

The British expat, who has lived in Brooklyn for the last eight years, won the men’s marathon with a time of 2:44:52, which he noted was a personal record.

Alas, when Woolway crossed the finish line, there wasn’t a family member or friend immediately ready to celebrate his accomplishment. Instead, he was going to have to wait for his wife, who was running in the women’s race.

But once she crossed the finish line, the two were going to go out on the town, right?

Wrong.

“I think probably a nice afternoon on the couch,” said Woolway, whose margin of victory was as impressive as Parrinello’s.

Woolway finished 11 minutes ahead of runner-up Michael Stayne (2:55:37) and exactly 12 ahead of Ian Stowe, who came in third. “[I] didn’t expect to win,” Woolway said. “It’s always tough coming across those bridges.”

Parrinello and Woolway were two of an estimated 2,100 competitors who participated in the 10K, half-marathon, wheelchair marathon and 26.2-mile races. Each of the races began in Babylon and ended at Gardiner County Park in Bay Shore.

Michael Perez (36:41) and Erin Mascaro (45:26) won the men’s and women’s 10K races. Gerard Connelly (1:08:29) and Jessica Donohue (1:18:29) won the men’s and women’s half marathon. Peter Hawkins (2:38:25) won the wheelchair marathon.

“I’m a runner,” Mascaro said. “It was awesome.”

Now in its ninth year, the marathon generates revenues that go toward Suffolk County programs designed to benefit veterans.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone told Newsday at the starting line that he expects “that we’re going to surpass over a million dollars in money” directed to the programs.

“There are so many amazing veterans organizations,” said Bellone, who ran the half-marathon and finished in 2:11:15. “We have a long list of organizations that received money from the marathon funding. There are so many organizations operating in Suffolk County, in the region, who are every day helping men and women who served us, and this marathon directly supports those organizations in their efforts.”