The Chilmark Road Race marks its 42nd year on Saturday — much-loved annual tradition in the run for the lobster.

Tristan Forsythe, 18, charged ahead to cross the finish line first in the Chilmark Road Race Saturday morning.

The first Chilmark Road Race stepped off in 1978. On Saturday at 10:30 a.m. the tradition continues on the hills of Middle Road.

Rain stopped just before the start of the annual road race Saturday. Benjamin Bosworth, 22, was the fastest runner of the day. Sheridan Wilbur won the women's division for the fourth year in a row.

For 40 years, Hugh Weisman has been measuring Middle Road, spray painting markers, ordering T-shirts, collecting prizes and organizing the Chilmark Road Race.

Free the lobsters. A poem inspired by the Chilmark Road Race.