Former US track star Chris Estwanik and North Carolina native, 18-year-old Ben Jones came out tops in the second annual Bermuda Triangle Half-Marathon and Marathon Challenge over the weekend.

The Challenge requires competitors to run in three separate races – the mile which was run on Friday, the 10K on Saturday and marathon or half-marathon on Sunday. Twenty-eight year-old Estwanik out duelled 165 other competitors to be crowned the Half-Marathon Challenge champion, some 23 minutes ahead of second placed Bermuda Masters runner Geoffrey Blee.

The Fairmont-to-Fairmont champion clocked five minutes, 34 seconds for his Challenge mile and then returned later on Friday night to finish fourth in the Elite Mile in a time of 4:20.

He ran the 10K in 30:36 and the Half-Marathon in 1:11:22 for a combined time of 1:47:33.

Blee placed second with a 5:32 mile, a 38:45 10K and a 1:26:34 half-marathon for a total of 2:10:52.

Third place went to Frank White, 34, of Medford, Massachusetts in a total time of 2:1122.

Teenager Jones was never troubled on his quest for the Marathon Triangle Challenge as he won by 26 minutes over his nearest competitor.

The runner from Chapel Hill, a town better known for its basketball rather than its running, ran the mile in 4:43, the 10K in 36:30 and the marathon in 2:53:23. His overall time was 3:34:37.

The surprise of the Marathon Challenge was Bermuda's Dawn Richardson who placed second overall, beating some 27 males who took on the most gruelling event of the weekend.

Richardson, 37, ran the mile in 5:45, the 10K in 41:20 and the Marathon in 3:13:28 for an overall time of 4:00:35. Maryland resident Michael Patschak was third over all with a total time of 4:05:11. He ran 5:09: for the mile, 37:34 for the 10K and 3:22:27 for the marathon.

Also pounding the roads over the weekend was Bermuda's own 'Marathon Man', Cal Steede, who competed in the Marathon Triangle Challenge, placing fifth, along with former resident Ronnie Wong, who at 62-years-old, placed a commendable sixth out of 29 runners.

Wong is known worldwide as an ultra-marathoner, running distances in excess of 100 miles.