Still sore from the Jack Brow Track Meet in Kelowna, BC, the top man and women pushed through the pain to win Athletics Yukon’s Five-Kilometre Road Race Championships, starting and ending at FH Collins Secondary on Tuesday.
Whitehorse’s Rodney Hulstein was the first to hit the five-kilometre mark, crossing the line in 17 minutes and 47 seconds. Hulstein earned himself a silver medal at the Jack Brow in the five-kilometre with a time of 16:29.
“This was slower, but more relaxed,” said Hulstein. “I could enjoy it - I tried to enjoy it. I’m hurting.
“It was good to be back in the Yukon running again. I was on vacation for the last two weeks. I’m feeling a little heavy.”
Hulstein won the half-marathon distance in last summer’s Yukon River Trail Marathon and won the half-distance event in the Skagway Marathon earlier this year.
Following Hulstein in was junior men’s Logan Boehmer in 18:51, followed by masters’ Scott Williams in 18:54 for third.
The top female on Tuesday was Whitehorse’s Brittany Pearson-Smith with a time of 20:22, beating out second-place’s Larra Daley (21:53) and third-place’s Cynthia Freeman (22:28).
“It was a bit of recovery from the weekend - I just came back from a track meet,” said Pearson-Smith, who is going into her fourth year at Carleton University where she skies for the cross-country team.
At the Jack Brow, Pearson-Smith won two golds in the open women category for the 5,000-metre and the 1,500-metre.
“I was the only one in the 20-plus category, so I got gold,” said Pearson-Smith. “But I ran with the 18, 19-and-up girls and I came in fourth.”
Other top finishes by Yukoners at Jack Brow include Logan Roots winning bronze in the 800-metre and 1,500-metre in men 18-19, and Sam Bonar taking bronze in the 1,200-metre for boys 14. Yukon’s Kieran Halliday and Sara Burke-Forsyth both placed fifth in races in their categories.
Road race results
Open men
1st Rodney Hulstein (17:47)
2nd Dan Macdonald (20:20)
3rd Ben Yu Schott (21:14)
4th Michael Lemmon (21:55)
5th Joel Macht (28:31)
Open women
1st Brittany Pearson-Smith (20:22)
2nd Larra Daley (21:53)
3rd Cynthia Freeman (22:28)
4th Coralie Ullyett (24:20)
Peewee men (U-11)
1st Thomas Bakica (27:04)
2nd Luke Bakica (28:30)
Bantam men (12-13)
1st Malcolm Muir (25:25)
Midget men (14-15)
1st Sam Bonner (23:12)
Junior men (18-19)
1st Logan Boehmer (18:51)
Masters (40-49)
1st Scott Williams (18:54)
Masters men (50-59)
1st Tom Ullyett (20:22)
2nd Bruce Cooke (24:26)
3rd Roger Hulstein (25:19)
Masters women (50-59)
1st Debora Kitchen (27:20)
Masters (60-69)
1st Keith Lay (24:13)
2nd Brian Mottus (25:03)
Masters (70+)
1st Dave Kalles (26:13)
5 Km Walkers
1st Bonnie Love (34:55)
2nd Jane Haydock (35:44)
3rd Susan Dennehy (36:51)
2.5 Km Runners
1st Lisa Freeman (19:18)
Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com