Photo by Vince Fedoroff
PUSHING HARD – Anett Kralisch runs during the Yukon 10K Championships in Riverdale on Tuesday night. Kralisch was the top female, finishing in 44 minutes 52 seconds.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
PUSHING HARD – Anett Kralisch runs during the Yukon 10K Championships in Riverdale on Tuesday night. Kralisch was the top female, finishing in 44 minutes 52 seconds.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
Runners in the 10k Championships start the race Tuesday evening. Ryan Leef, left, won the mens and Anett Kralisch, right, won the womens.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
Anett Kralisch
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
Ted Tucker, front, and Ryan Leef run in the 10k Championships Tuesday evening.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
Ryan Leef
After posting three major personal best times this season,
After posting three major personal best times this season, Anett Kralisch was hoping for another at the Yukon 10K Championships.
About four kilometres in, she realized it might not be in the cards, however she still managed to post the top female time, finishing in 44 minutes 52 seconds.
With all the toughness of a 5K, but twice as long, Kralisch said that the 10K is “the most awful distance out there.”
But with the three personal bests under her belt this season – a 5K, the Grey Mountain run and the Skagway Half Marathon – she was feeling confident heading into the 10K championships.
The course was two loops of the weekly 5K Fun Run trail, which follows the Millennium Trail from F.H. Collins before looping back at the Fish Ladder on Nisutlin Drive and Lewes Boulevard.
Kralisch was trying to keep the men’s leaders: Ryan Leef and Ted Tucker in sight, but at around kilometre four, she crashed.
“I could feel that my body had given up,” she said. “It went into pure survival mode.”
But still she persisted, finishing about 1 1/2 to two minutes off her goal time.
Kralisch is one of the rare Yukon runner who prefers road running to trail running.
“I like the meditative aspect to it,” she said.
She isn’t sure what her next race will be, but may take it easy before the Klondike Road Relay.
The top male runner was Ryan Leef, who finished in 40:15.
Male 20-34
Male 35-39
Male 40-44
Male 45-49
Male 55-59
Male 65-69
Male 55-59 (walk)
Female 20-34
Female 40-44
Anett Kralisch – 44:52
Rachel Moser – 57:15
Female 50-54
Female 5K
Junior and Family 1.5K
Maxim Labrie – 11:23
Annie Claude-Dupuis – 11:23
Arlo Biedermann – 11:27
Lara Daly – 11:27
Junior 3.5K
Cody Adams – 17:12
Samual Adams – 17:25
In order to encourage thoughtful and responsible discussion, website comments will not be visible until a moderator approves them. Please add comments judiciously and refrain from maligning any individual or institution. Read about our user comment and privacy policies.
Your name and email address are required before your comment is posted. Otherwise, your comment will not be posted.
Be the first to comment