Both winners improved on second-place finishes in 2023.
A year ago, Jett Dobson and Rebecca Bennitt couldn’t find the proper pacing and both runners finished second at the Firefighters Ten Mile Road Race.
Dobson, set to enter his final year at Lakehead University, where he’s a member of the track-and-field team, said as a youngster, he watched the race for years, knowing one day he wanted to cross the finish line first. He trailed other runners for much of the first half of the race, but said once he reached the halfway point, Dobson said he began to gain ground on the leaders and once he pulled ahead, he never looked back.“Last year I made the mistake of going out a little to quickly. This year I wrote down, on a piece of paper, my plan.
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