Coming into the final leg of the Klondike Trail of ‘98 Road Relay, team Running Home to Yukon Brewing was back almost eight minutes from rival Yukon team, Aggressive Nonchalence.

Anchoring leg 10 for Yukon Brewing was fast local runner, Lindsay Carson.

Her first time running leg 10, Carson was just trying to match her 10 Miler pace from a few weeks ago, a time in the realm of six minutes per mile.

Though the previous night’s deluge had petered off and a bright blue sky had opened up, the headwind from the Carcross cutoff along the Alaska Highway into town was punishing.

“I underestimated the hills and the headwind,” she said by phone on Sunday after doing a recovery trail run.

As she headed into Miles Canyon, her team ran alongside her for a few metres, passing off liquids and the splits of how close she was to closing the gap between her team and Aggressive Nonchalence.

Yukon Brewing got off to a quick start with Willie Bell, Sam Lindsey, Anett Kralisch and Luke Carlos pulling ahead of the rival team. But fast legs 5 through 9 by David Greer, Matthias Purdon, Simon Lapointe, Caelan Pangman McLean and Brendan Morphet over night and Saturday morning kept Aggressive Nonchalence in the lead going into the final 19.3 K leg.

As she crossed the highway and onto the gravel Miles Canyon Road, Carson got her second wind.

“I was chasing down people,” she said. “I didn’t really know what category they were in. There was just kind of kids and older people, but I still liked having those bodies there to have a target to chase.”

Familiar with the finish at Rotary Peace Park, she applied pressure through to the end, feeling strong.

“Once you’re coming up to the Klondike, you know you’re almost there,” she said. “It’s very nostalgic to me.”

Carson posted the third-fastest leg 10 time, bringing her team home to finish 16 minutes ahead of Aggressive Nonchalence.

Yukon Brewing was second overall behind the Alaskan mixed team, Team Elite - TNP, whose leg 1 runner, Anna Dalton broke the female record, which has stood for 25 years by 34 seconds. They finished in 11 hours, nine minutes and 23 seconds.

Aggressive Nonchalence took the Open win in 12:31:09, third overall.

Mixed teams must have a minimum of three males and three females, while open teams have no restrictions.

The records kept falling in the legs 7-10 walking category, as the Claim Cafe Caffeinators (Glenys Baltimore, Jany Haydock, Bonnie Love and John Storms) broke the record the 2007 record set by the Chocolate Claim Walkers (of which Love was a member) by about five minutes.

In the youth category, running from Carcross, team Baby Blue beat the record set by Kluane Drilling Road Runners last year by more than 20 minutes. The record setting team included: Jude Slater, Romeo Champagne, Sash Masson, Jamie Phillips-Freedman, Derek Deuling, Ben Puskas, Victor Thibeault and Nichollis Schmidt.

The Kluane Drilling Road Runners team finished second this year, with many of their returning runners also breaking their record from last year in a time of 5:36:53.

And the mostly Dawson City youth team, Where is My Ecologically Sustainable Buddhist Butterfly?, also broke last year’s record in a time of 5:45:53.

Their leg 10a and 10b runners, Joe Parker (Whitehorse) and Jack Amos (Dawson City) both broke leg records. Parker beat Simon Cash’s 2013 time of 43:15 by two seconds, while Amos beat Sammy Mather’s 2014 record by 2:42.

Derek Deuling of team baby Blue also broke a 2013 Sammy Mather record on leg 9a, posting a new time of 35:48.

Darby McIntyre of team S.W.A.T.T ran to a new record time of 39:49 on leg 8b.

Youth girls also posted some new records.

Remie Cherepak of Jasmine’s Team on leg 9a now holds that leg’s record of 42:08 and Hannah Jirousek of Case of the Runs posted a 39:13 en route to claiming the leg 10b youth record.

The women team category was won by Toronto team Angels 2. Masters Open was won by Whitehorse’s Shier Law Runners, Masters Women was won by Whitehorse’s Quantum Running Machines and Masters mixed was won by Juneau’s Still Runnin with Glenn.

The Corporate was won by Vancouver’s Horny Goats.

Erica Van Vlack was the sole entrant in the Ultra race (starting in Carcross).

The Walkers legs 7a to 10b was won by Wobbly Walkers.