Racers participating in the Men's Masters 40 plus and Men's Masters 50-59 races pull around a turn during the Tour of Lawrence Haskell Criterium on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at Haskell Indian Nations University.

Depending on the day, the course and the competition, cyclist Gwen Inglis sometimes takes an extraordinary approach to her race day.

Saturday at the Tour of Lawrence’s Haskell Campus Criterium Races, Inglis check-marked all the appropriate boxes and entered two events: the women’s masters, for cyclists 40 or older, and the women’s pro race. The feat seemed all the more impressive once she took first place in both.

“Thankfully in this case there was enough time between the races that I was able to put my legs up for a while and take a little nap and have some lunch and that kind of thing,” the smiling Lakewood, Colorado, racer said after cruising to a morning victory, then holding off Britta Siegel, Laurel Ledbetter, Anne Meyer and Katherine Kelter in her main event, late in the afternoon.

The less crowded masters race — in which Ledbetter also competed, and took second — allowed Inglis to acclimate herself to the course, and it worked to her advantage.

“I kind of use it as an opener,” said Inglis, of the Stages Cycling team. “After traveling for eight hours in the car (Friday), I thought, ‘Maybe I need to get out there and flush some of the junk out of the legs.'”

Inglis didn’t pump a fist or even acknowledge her second victory upon crossing the finish line, because she felt Siegel and the rest of the pack breathing down her neck.

“I didn’t know how close they were, so I didn’t want to take any chances,” she said of celebrating and possibly coming in second. “That’d be a little embarrassing.”

Inglis and her husband Michael try to make the Tour of Lawrence a staple of their yearly schedule. She won the Kansas University campus race in 2014, as well as the downtown criterium in 2011. A completely different campus course this year didn’t keep her from defending her crown.

“I love this one, as well. Obviously, there’s a lot less climbing,” Inglis said, “but there are a lot of turns and some of them are just really flowing. I found the course a lot of fun.”

Today, she’ll try to win a downtown title to make it three first-place finishes for the weekend.

“We’ll see what we can do, but now I’m kind of marked,” Inglis said. “They’ll be watching for me.”

Bryan Duvall, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, could have the same issue downtown today after winning the men’s pro race.

Duvall’s neon yellow jersey made him easy to spot as he sprinted toward the finish line Saturday afternoon. Michael Giem and Ryan Gabriel stayed right on top of him, as a swarm of 10 racers all eyed the title in the final sprint down Indian Avenue. Duvall ever so slightly beat Giem (second) and Gabriel (third) across the line, then raised his right fist and let out a celebratory yell, despite the photo finish.

“When you have enough of those close calls throughout the years,” Duvall said, “you just know. You know? I was watching (Giem) come up my right side the whole entire time — we kind of look out of our peripheral vision. I knew it was gonna be close and the line was coming pretty quick. But he was charging hard, too. I just knew when we got there… He had kind of the dejected look and I had the more positive outlook, so that kind of tells you, too.”

Duvall, 43, considers himself a “premature” sprinter, meaning he prefers charging into the final turn, instead of out of it. He calls his top-end speed “mediocre” compared to some of his contemporaries. So he went all out, headed north on Perimeter Road on the last lap, and reached the front of the pack before the 14th and final turn of the course.

“If you can get to the corner first, it puts a little distance between you and the rest of the group,” said Duvall, of the Soundpony Triad Bank team. “It gives you a little bit of a buffer.”

For Duvall, a runner-up in the downtown criterium in 2012, the breathing room made all the difference for the home stretch, as seven other racers finished within a second of him.

The Haskell route, different from the typical KU setup, attracted Duvall to Saturday’s race.

“If I come at all it’s usually just for the downtown crit,” he said. “But when I heard that this course had so many corners and it wasn’t the usual hill-climb, it sounded like it suited my style and it sounded feasible.”