Sara Slattery put her injury woes behind her to comfortably win the Women's 10K race on Saturday.

The American, running her first distance race for almost a year, came home in a time of 35:20, some 30 seconds ahead of runner-up Korene Hinds of Jamaica.

Despite Saturday's almost perfect conditions, Slattery's time was more than a minute slower than the 34:14 posted by last year's winner, Aziza Aliya, who ran in the wet, and the American admitted to being caught out by the warm weather and the hilly course.

"It was hard out there, the hills were really hard," said Slattery.

"I went out and tried to be conservative but it still catches up with you, and it was hot.

"Coming here I was expecting warm conditions but it's been cold the whole time we've been here so I thought it would be a little bit cooler. But it was fun, I enjoyed it, and all the fans along the race course were great."

And Slattery believed the experience of a tough race in Bermuda will help her perform better in the coming months.

"I had some health problems over the summer and was taking my time coming back because I've found through the years that the three months you take early are better than seven or eight months down the line," she said.

"We've just been very cautious before this, but the race was good, it will help my training a lot, and when you have a hard race it always makes you more aggressive in practice and should make those work-outs a little bit easier."

Slattery, and husband Steven who was second in the men's 10K race, are in Bermuda for the first time and had originally planned to just run the longer distance. However, the chance to run in the Front Street Mile proved too good to pass up.

"It's my first race in eight months," said Slattery. "It felt really awkward in the mile but it felt a little bit more comfortable in the 10K because we've been doing just base work, and longer runs, and threshold runs.

"This, except for the hills at the end, was more common to what we are doing right now but I can't pass up a mile, I was a miler in college, I love running it."

In the battle of the Jamaican runners, Hinds (35:54) came out on top, finishing just behind Slattery and exacted some revenge after being beaten to the mile title by Kenia Sinclair, who was third on Saturday in a time of 36:21.