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Fighting to get his breathing under control after crossing the finish at the PhysioPlus 10K Yukon Road Racing Championships, Brendan Morphet is quick to praise local running 麻豆社区Lindsay Carson.

鈥淟indsay is phenomenal,鈥� he said as his watch beeped intervals out. 鈥淚t was hard just keeping up with her.鈥�

Carson beat the rest of the field at the Tuesday night race, which featured two loops on the typical 5K Fun Run course.鈥圫tarting at F.H. Collins School, participants raced down the sidewalk, past the skatepark and joined Millennium鈥圱rail, which they followed up to the Fish Ladder, before returning on Nisutlin Drive to the school.

Carson鈥檚 time of 36:47, isn鈥檛 a personal best by any stretch of the imagination, but the 27-year old runner is still happy with the effort, especially considering two weeks ago she wasn鈥檛 planning to do this race.

鈥淢y coach strongly suggested I do this race,鈥� she said at the finish, 鈥渟o here I am, being a good athlete.鈥�

After the mass start, Morphet led the race for about one kilometre before Carson took over.

They stayed together for the 10-kilometre course, which Carson finds tough.

鈥淛ust mentally and you鈥檙e dodging walkers and the hill at the fish ladder,鈥� she said. 鈥淪o to be able to say I鈥檝e done this loop twice in a row with a hard effort, I鈥檓 proud of that.鈥�

As they hit the backstretch and returned to the finish via Nisutlin on the second loop, Morphet said he tried to pull Carson back in.

鈥淲e were neck and neck,鈥� he said. 鈥淎s soon as we got to Selkirk, she was a bullet.鈥� Carson pulled away and grimaced to a tough finish. Morphet wasn鈥檛 far behind, finishing in 36:53.

For Carson, her win was a redemption as Morphet narrowly beat her at the Trail Half Marathon earlier this month.

Neither is particularly happy with their time, but for Morphet, a lot of it comes down to gaining more race experience. A runner most comfortable on the trails, this is his first year attempting competitions.

鈥淚鈥檓 still trying to figure out a (race) strategy,鈥� said Morphet. 鈥淚 was asking her (Carson) if she could give me some pointers.鈥�

Morphet will get to put her advice into practice next week at the Claim Pre-Skagway race, a 10-miler tune-up ahead of September鈥檚 Klondike Road Relay.

Running in his first 10K race, Joe Parker finished third-overall and smashed his goal of going under 40 minutes. He finished in 38:49.

鈥淚t was my first 10K race, so I was pretty happy with what I finished with,鈥� he said.

Breaking the race into two parts, Parker wanted to run each 5K in around 19 minutes.

He said he may go the B.C. Cross-Country Championships in October this year and is 鈥済etting more comfortable with racing.鈥�

Masters walkers John Storms and Bonnie Love finished the race in 58:08 and 1:10:17, while Thomas Bakica (21:20), Clark LaPrairie (23:12) and Isaac Obrien (23:28) did a 5K loop and Lisa Freeman (18:12) did 3K.

Rounding out the 10K field was Anett Kralisch (44:10), Sue Bogle (45:38), Cindy Freeman (48:44) and Ross King (49:04).