The National High School Trail Championship race came down to a photo finish for the boys, as brothers Sullivan and Porter Middaugh raced across the finish line just 0.02 second apart, with Porter diving forward trying to beat his older brother.
Sullivan, 17, finished with a time of 33 minutes, 32.47 seconds, while Porter, 15, finished at 33:32.49. The brothers are from Battle Mountain High School in Vail.
In the girlsâ race, Aubrey Surage, 18, from Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument, broke the girlsâ course record by just a few seconds, with a time of 37:28.68.
The race course was 5.4 miles through the Arkansas Hills Trail System. It began on the north side of the F Street bridge and finished in Riverside Park.