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.

Yukon 10K Championships Results

Male 20-34

1. Ted Tucker – 40:27

Male 35-39

1. Ben Harper – 47:30

Male 40-44

1. Ryan Leef – 40:15

Male 45-49

1. Ross King – 47:01

Male 55-59

1. Chris Locke – 48:55

Male 65-69

1. Chester Kelly – 53:26

Male 55-59 (walk)

1. John Storms – 58:37

Female 20-34

1. Joanna Sharp – 56:22

Female 40-44

1. Anett Kralisch – 44:52

2. Rachel Moser – 57:15

Female 50-54

1. Janet Clark – 47:25

Female 5K

1. Alison Adams – 29:52

Junior and Family 1.5K

1. Maxim Labrie – 11:23

2. Annie Claude-Dupuis – 11:23

3. Arlo Biedermann – 11:27

4. Lara Daly – 11:27

Junior 3.5K

1. Cody Adams – 17:12

2. Samual Adams – 17:25