Jordan Chipangama was so relaxed during a post-race interview at the National Stadium that it was hard to fathom that he had just blitzed the field en route to capturing a second Bermuda Marathon Weekend 10K title in three years.

Such was the Zambian runner’s dominance, perhaps the only real obstacles standing in his way was the wet and windy conditions and a careless motorist on Middle Road whose car nearly wiped out the lead bunch near Somersfield Academy.

“I don’t think [the motorist] knew what was going on because he kind of looked a little confused when he was told to move on the side [by the police escort] so it was probably just confusion to some extent,” Chipangama said.

Catastrophe avoided, Chipangama continued to play cat and mouse with Nick Swimburn, the Englishman who led a lead bunch of five runners across the first mile mark, before making the decisive break midway through the second and third miles.

“I felt that the guys were not that hard to get away from so when we got to 2½ miles I saw that their breathing was quite heavy and I knew I would get away from it,” Chipangama said.

By the time he breezed past the third mile it was no longer a question of who would win, but rather by what margin.

“From three miles I started pushing it and tried to run away from them and duel with the wind,” Chipangama said.

“The wind was a huge factor and was blowing most of the way through, so you really had to work hard to come through it.”

There was a sense of inevitability as Chipangama cruised across the finish line with no other runner in sight in 31min 23sec, which was outside of his personal best.

“It feels goods to win another 10K and I love Bermuda,” Chipangama said.

“The weather wasn’t kind to us, but above all it was a good race and I love being here.”

Chipangama’s emphatic display went some way towards compensation for coming up short yet again the previous night in elite men’s mile, a title that still eludes him.

“I wanted to pay back for yesterday’s loss for sure,” Chipangama said. “I would have loved to have won the mile because it is one of the races that I love the most.

“I needed to shuffle the cards right but as it turned out I just didn’t have the best of hands. The guys played it well and outkicked me.”

Meanwhile, finishing runner-up in the 10K for the second successive year was Bermuda’s own Lamont Marshall who did some outkicking of his own to hold off Swimburn in an exciting sprint finish.

Marshall went over the line in 31:46 secs with Swimburn trailing closely behind a further two seconds adrift.