Camren Fischer crossed the finish line all alone at Saturday's 29th annual Chile Pepper Festival.

The Fayetteville junior's nearest competitor in the prep boys El Calientein division finished more than 25 seconds later. His time of 15 minutes, 6 seconds in the 5K race easily bettered his time a year ago of 15:20 when he took third.

Fischer said the biggest difference for this year was mindset.

"I was a sophomore, Fischer said. "I wasn't really expected to win, so I just went in just to see what I could do. I didn't know what I could do and I surprised myself. I just pushed myself. But today I went for the win.