Kristi Hall really didn’t want to get up and run Saturday morning. Not after running a half-marathon last weekend. She wanted to rest and recover, maybe to sleep in.

Her kids wouldn’t let her, though, so she went to Saturday’s Chill in the Hills 10K. Again.

And she won. Again.

The 37-year-old Vicksburg resident won the women’s championship in the race for the seventh time in its eight years of existence. She clocked a time of 43 minutes and 43 seconds, more than seven minutes ahead of women’s runner-up Melissa Smithhart, and finished fourth overall.

Luke Beissel, a 12-year-old from Grenada, finished first overall with a time of 41:24.

“The only reason I’m here is because my kids wanted to run the 1-mile (fun run),” Hall said with a laugh. Her daughter Gloria finished first in the girls’ 1-mile run and her son Sam was third overall. “I did the Mississippi Blues half-marathon last week. That’s a good way to injure yourself.”

Hall, as she usually does, put a hurting on most of her competitors.

She stayed within range of the leaders, although she never threatened Beissel’s lead, and clocked the third-fastest time of her seven Chill in the Hills wins. She finished fourth overall for the third consecutive year.

The only time Hall didn’t win the Chill in the Hills was when she didn’t compete because of an injury in 2011.

Hall won one of Vicksburg’s “big three” road races — the Chill in the Hills, Run Thru History and Over the River Run — for the 14th time. She’s never won the Run Thru History, which takes place in early March, and joked that she’s looking forward to continuing the streak.

“I’m shooting for my streak of second and third places. I’d hate to blow that streak,” she said. “But I’m going to train hard. You have good and bad days, and hopefully the good races come in the ones you care about.”

Hall showed up to run with her kids, but she and everyone else ended up chasing another one.

Beissel, a seventh-grader at Kirk Academy in Grenada, finished the 10K course in 41 minutes and 24 seconds. He’s won some cross country races before, but said this was the first time he’d won a road race.

Beissel finished 33 seconds ahead of runner-up Josue Capir — a distance of about 200 yards. Orlando Carrasquillo was third, with a time of 42:52.

“(Capir) was pushing me. I knew him because he was in another race that I ran a few weeks ago,” Beissel said. “Right after the big uphill I knew he was dead and it was over.”

Beissel was in town for the weekend visiting his grandmother, Chomella Beissel, and decided to tackle the Chill in the Hills on Saturday morning.

“My grandmother lives here and we came to visit. It was a double-purpose,” Luke Beissel said.

In the 5K race walk, Tallulah resident Lee Fore edged Vicksburg’s Stephan Pranger by just 11 seconds to win his first Chill in the Hills championship. Fore had finished in the top five each of the previous three years.

Fore credited several others — some of whom were at the race and some who were not — for his victory.

Pranger, he said, stayed on his heels to the very end and pushed him to go faster. Three-time champion Larry Robinson, meanwhile, skipped the race and opened the door for Fore to pick up the win.

“Some people didn’t show up, and that’s how I fell into it,” Fore said with a chuckle, before adding of Pranger, “We’re on the same team and we were pacing each other. It makes a big difference when you have somebody pushing you. It’s hard when you’re out there by yourself.”

Jennifer Mallard won the women’s race walk, with a time of 36:41. Kelley Sanders was second, with a time of 37:12.

In the children’s 1-mile fun run, Benjamin Owens finished first with a time of 7:07. Emmanuel Agyepong was second in 7:37, and Hampton Derivaux was third in 8:27. The girls’ winner was Gloria Hall, with a time of 8:46.