Some of the region's fastest runners made short work of a 12-kilometre road race.
Nanaimo's Forrest Simpson was the winner of Sunday's Cedar 12K, one of the stops on the Vancouver Island Runners Association's Island Race Series.
Simpson, representing the University of Victoria Vikings team, completed the course in 37 minutes, 57 seconds.
The women's winner was Lauren Babineau of Victoria, who finished in 45:53, 30 seconds ahead of runner-up Melissa Ross of Nanaimo.
The next race in the series is the Hatley Castle 8K in Colwood on Feb. 21. For more information about the series, please visit www.vira.bc.ca.