A local athlete won a premier cross-country skiing series race in Kamloops, Jan. 25-26.
Kirsten Bock of 100 Mile House competed in the second Teck BC Cup event of the season as part of a Nordic ski team from the University of British Columbia, where she studies kinesiology.
Bock, a former member of the 100 Mile Nordic Ski Society, was 23 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher in the 10-kilometre free technique, interval start race.
Her time was 33 minutes, 21.2 seconds.
It was Bock's second victory of the season.
