The Arboretum was the venue for the first meet of the Bermuda National Athletics Association cross-country season.

About 100 runners split into various age groups took part, with Kamari Brooks and Nolan Horrobin coming out on top in the under-10 division, which was held over a mile.

Brooks came home in a time of 5min 37.79 sec to beat Giselle Reid-Rubaine (5:56.74) and Diamond Morris (6:11.53), while Horrobin made it on to the top rung of the podium ahead of Ethan Anderson (5:15.76) and Theodore Smith (5:35.58)

Races for runners aged 10 and 11 were also held over a mile and it came as no surprise when Naomi MacGuinness, a regular winner at these events, was the first to cross the line in 4:49.55, with Kayuni Simmons second (5:36.80) and Aalirah Daniels (5:47.54) third.

MacGuinness’s time was 13 seconds faster than that recorded by Khaleef Daley (5:02.30) in the boys division. Daley beat Adrian Myers (5:07.60) and Liam Horrobin (5:09.69) into second and third.

Riana Robinson (11:41.76) won the two-mile race for girls aged 12 or 13 ahead of Avery Haldeman (13:08.07) and Jasmine Reid-Rubaine (13:54.80), with Jens Drea (9:56.30) breaking ten minutes in the boys race. Drea finished in front of Spencer Haldeman (10:11.30) and Timothy Pearman (10:32.41).

Kelise Wade (12:21.45) beat Aria Mosquera (13:01.25) and Jaylen Lewis (14:03.61) in the race for girls aged 14 to 16, with Sanchez Smith (9:43.84) prevailing over Tobiah Goodchild (10:10.12) and Nazir Johnson (10:33.17) in the boys division.

In the adult races over three miles, Dem Salter beat Hilary Haldeman in the women’s 40-49 age group.

Vivienne Lochhead beat Mia Pauwels in the 50-59 age group with Duane Simons beating Wentworth Tucker in the men’s race.

Mairi Redmond beat Edwina Arorash in the women’s 60-69 age group.