plenty of sun block with them to Bermuda.

Freary, after seeing Michal Bartoszak behind him in the Bank of Butterfield Mile on Friday night and Lewis, seeing the same thing in the ADT 10-K on Saturday, each probably now figure they have been burned quite enough.

Bartoszak continued to eat up the road around him this weekend in spectacular fashion by winning the 10-K and making posterity's scoresheet for a second consecutive day when he added the 10-K championship to his mile title.

The native of Poland snatched the lead away from Lewis just 20 yards from the finish line at National Stadium on Saturday, clocking 29 minutes and 32 seconds, winning the $1,000 first prize by seizing the lead for his only time on the day.

Lewis finished a second behind Bartoszak and had, until the final moments of the race, thoroughly enjoyed his status as front-runner. The Briton led most of the second half and came in at 29:33, while Keith Brantley -- also a leader several times -- finished third at 29:45.

All three runners posted a better time than last year's winner -- Marcos Baretto of Mexico -- who blazed the 1993 trail at 30:01. But they were shy of Briton Geoff Smith's course record of 28:14 set in 1982.

The trio set a delirious pace in the thin January sunlight, making their joyous clatter before silent houses on an early Saturday morning.

Bartoszak produced another VCR special -- there are things in this world worth recording -- and he could hardly resist the impulse to `high five' himself after the race. His pace per mile was four minutes and 45 seconds.

"I ran a very smart race,'' he said in his thick Polish accent. "Three years ago I was third and last year I was second. This year I'm thinking in the final moments of the race that it was mine.'' Lewis claimed the $600 second-place prize.

"It was a bad race for me because I was beaten,'' he said seconds after watching his certain victory shrivel up. One of England's top distance runners, Lewis did not need a print-out to see where he finally fit in.

"I'm kicking myself now because I should have made my move a little bit earlier. Maybe I should have taken it at the beginning of the (Commissioner's) hill because I think I would have dropped Michal there. But he was with me all the time. With him being the miler, his strength is to sit in and sprint at the end. I'm the 10-K runner, so my job is to get rid of him, and I didn't do it. So he won. That's life.'' Freary, who finished eighth in 1993 at 32:15, this year saw his time improve (31:34) but also watched his position plummet to 10th overall.

The lanky Briton had warned Lewis before the race to "watch Bartoszak's kick.

I mean, Michal's got that good kick at the end of all the races he's been winning. I guess we've both suffered from it, haven't we?'' Jerry Lawson of the US, winner of the Sacramento Marathon in November and with a best 10-K time of 28:54 under his belt, finished fourth in 29:52 after leading in the early going. Fifth was Canadian Steve Boyd at 30:30 while Russian Viacheslav Shabounin, who was worth his weight in rubles this weekend, was sixth in 30:31 with American Scott Bagley next at 30:33. Shabounin was third during Friday night's mile.

Winning the women's title for the second year in a row was Anne-Marie Letko of the US. Letko, 24, clocked 33:48 and was 21st overall, one spot behind boyfriend James Lauck (33:42). Her time was also 19 seconds better than last year.

"I just came here for the win,'' said the attractive runner, considering the solemnity of her achievement. She was well off her best time of 32:25 and more than two minutes behind Greta Waitz's record (31:14) set in 1982.

"I really wanted to enjoy myself and I wanted to use the same strategy as last year, which was to go out hard and sort of wither away the competition.

"I think I'm coming down with a bit of sickness, so I felt pretty weak. But when we hit North Shore Road, that's when I felt best because the breeze there cooled me off a little bit and slowed me down to more of a comfort zone.'' Finishing in second place was American Laura Mykytok at 35:10, who admitted having her difficulty on the hills. Mykytok also complained of being tired because she had to return to her home in Florida after arriving in Bermuda because she had left her passport there.

"The hill at Palmetto Road gave me problems because there was so much wind accompanying it. I'm just not used to hills, but I'm not unhappy with my finish.'' Immediately behind Mykytok was Misti Demko, also of the US, at 35:23.

Bartoszak will now compete in next week's Miami Mile while Letko plans to tone down her training while aiming for a gold medal for the US this summer in the 1,000 metres at the Bislett Games in Norway.