Road racing athletes Reuben J.A. Stoby and Rosmond Johnson have added the Ceres Juices 10K Series title to their recent Blenheim Trust 5K titles after winning race three of the 10K series on Beef Island on Saturday July 25, 2015. Photo: VINO

Stoby surprised everyone when he sprinted from the start line and was able to develop a huge lead that allowed him to win comfortably.

His winning time, one of the fastest recorded on the course, was 39.28 and was the only runner breaking 40 minutes.

“I wanted to win this race to dedicate to my wife Yonette who I recently married. In fact, after not being in a racing mood up to last evening she encouraged me to go run and give my best and I am just thrilled to have won.

The strategy was to go hard and intimidate the competition a little so that is why I started at such a crazy pace. I was very pleased to see no one opting to go with me so I had a comfortable lead throughout the race,” Stoby said after the race.

The 5K and 10K champion, who is undefeated this year in those distances, added that 39:28 was not a bad time but he would surely like to be running 37 minutes before the series ends. “I think that is very achievable.”

Julius Farley, who chose not to go with Stoby’s “crazy” starting pace, took second in 40: 05. Farley said the word “crazy” came to mind when he saw Stoby take off and said he wanted no part of that. “I wasn’t in the best frame of mind coming to race already so I was not willing to go out so hard,” Farley said.

Coming in not so far behind Farley was Ian Montgomery who clocked 40:14.

Meanwhile, Rosmond Johnson (49:04) continued her winning ways by overcoming newest rival Melissa Brunner (50:21).

Johnson had also won the Blenheim Trust 5K Series and took her third straight 10K win to seal the series with two more races yet to go.

40 runners took to the start line on the car park of Long Bay beach on Beef Island.

The next race of the series is the Steelman Warmup at Beef Island on October 17, 2015 and the final on November 21, 2015 starting and ending at the Watering Hole in Road Town.