The city of Sumner has won the inaugural Mayors’ Cup awarded by the annual Rainier To Ruston race. Race coordinator Richard Pasquier presented the blown glass cup to Mayor Dave Enslow Monday evening (presentation begins approximately 2 minutes, 30 seconds into the video).

Rainier to Ruston is a 50.8 mile ultra marathon that begins near the Carbon River entrance of Mount Rainier National Park and ends at Marine Park in Ruston Way, Tacoma. The June 1, 2013 race was the first to introduce the Mayors’ Cup, inspired by The Mayor’s Relayers team of South Prairie, according to the Founder’s Corner page of the race website.

Pasquier selected a team to represent each city, choosing the team ‘Y are we doing this?’ for Sumner. The team came in seventeenth overall and first among Mayors’ Cup competitors. The team finished the race in just over seven hours.

Sumner will be allowed to display the Cup, blown by the Tacoma Museum of Glass, until June 2014.

“You never know,” Pasquier said at the Monday night city council meeting. “Maybe you’ll get to keep it (if Sumner wins next year) or another city might win it.”

Team Godamavan of Silverdale finished the race with the best overall time. Fleet Feet Sports raced as a Sumner team and finished third overall, with a time just over 6 hours.