Wolves Athletics Club athlete Fiona Benson handily won the womens race at the Emperor’s Challenge Mountain 20 km in Tumbler Ridge on Saturday.  The 19 year old runner established a new course record, clocking 1:43:40 for the very difficult course, nearly 7 minutes better than runner up Wendy Giesbrecht from Cecil Lake.  Overall, Benson finished 7^th out of nearly 650 runners.

Perenial champion Kris Swanson of Victoria defended his Emperor’s Challenge title,
clocking 1:24:52, three minutes ahead of fellow National Mountain Running Team
Member Adrian Lambert from Edmonton. This was Swanson’s 13^th victory in 14 years.

Top Grande Prairie finishers included Scott Goosney (1:41: 52, 5th overall) and Sherry
Wendland (2:06:41, 10^th woman.)

Next up for local runners is the Don’t Get Lost in the Woods Trails races on the Labour Day weekend.

Full results posted at www.emperorschallenge.com