Joe Kline / The Bulletin file photoEmma Maaranen and other elite, expert, and singlespeed women's racers ride the first section of the Chainbreaker course in the Skyline Forest area west of Bend in May.

OGDEN, Utah — Bend’s Emma Maaranen won the women’s pro division of the USA Cycling Fat Bike Nationals Saturday at Powder Mountain Resort.

Maaranen finished the 18-mile course in 1 hour, 38 minutes, 27 seconds. Porsha Murdock, also of Bend, finished fourth among the pro women in 1:57:15.

Bend’s Colonel Reynolds finished 16th in the men’s master 50-59 age group in 1:15:25.

The course for the second-year event was staged across Powder Mountain’s snow-covered Hidden Lake area terrain. Fatbikes feature wider-than-normal mountain bike tires for traction in the snow.

The 2017 nationals will be staged in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Marranen credited her win partially to her training on the groomed fatbike trails at Wanoga Sno-park west of Bend.

— Bulletin staff report