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Rocky Hill Teen Wins Hartford Riverfest Race
The 16-year-old Xavier student came out first during a race day mixed with near-record high temperatures.
A Rocky Hill teen won the annual Riverfest X-treme Scramble Series race in Hartford on Thursday.
The Hartford Courant reported that 16-year-old Gregson Curtin, a junior at Xavier High School in Middletown, crossed the finish line in under 11.5 minutes.
The race, while billed initially as a 5K, or 3.1 miles, was shortened to 2 miles because of the intense heat that has been blanketing Connecticut this week, The Courant reported.
Race officials told the Courant that typically 600-700 people will run in the race, but those numbers were likely smaller due to the weather.
Read the full story about the race — as well as how thousands of Justin Bieber fans flooded Hartford to see the pop star perform at the XL Center around the same time — on the Courant's website.
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