KODIAK, Alaska – It’s possible that Miles Dunbar has never had more motivation. The Chico State distance runner was not only trying to hang onto the lead at the American Legion July Fourth 10K Run and Walk in Kodiak, Alaska – he was trying to make sure his brother or father didn’t take it from him. They didn’t. In fact, no one did.

Dunbar crossed the line with a winning time of 35:17. His brother Trevor, one of the top distance running recruits in the nation as a prep senior last year, finished third in 35:34. Marcus Dunbar, the boys’ father, finished fifth in 36:35.

“It’s good to have Miles pick up a win here,” Marcus Dunbar told the Kodiak Daily Mirror. “He sure deserves it. He is training hard. And he has kind of been in the shadow of all the publicity his brother has been getting.”

Trevor, a two-time Alaska state cross country champion and the runner-up finisher at the 2008 Foot Locker National Cross Country Championships, recently graduated from high school and has signed to run at the University of Portland.

Miles is coming off his sophomore track season at Chico State University in California where he ran personal bests in the both the 5,000 meters (15:19) and in the 1,500 (4:05) following a bone infection that kept him from training for almost his entire freshman season.