The Atlas Cider Co. team on Saturday posted the fastest overall time in the PPP for the second consecutive year. The team, whose members are all from Bend, finished in 1 hour, 34 minutes and 55 seconds to win the Open Teams category. (Men’s elite individual winner Jesse Thomas finished in 1:42:50.)

Last year, Atlas Cider finished in 1:44:05.

This year the all-male team had a ringer in world-class runner Max King, who completed the 5-mile running leg in a sizzling 25:18.

Dan McCoy, owner of Atlas Cider Co., has made a point of assembling the fastest PPP team each of the past two years.

“It’s been cool to get all these guys to rally together,” McCoy said. “The coolest thing about it is a lot of us are buddies. I just invited Max. The way everything has evolved, somebody knows somebody.”

McCoy, for his part, ran the final half-mile sprint, posting a time of 2:27.

The team tried to gain an edge by having two members, Eric Martin and Brian Seguin, ride a tandem bike on the cycling leg. McCoy explained that the extra weight would make them faster on the mostly downhill ride. Martin and Seguin completed the stage in 33:06.

“They were saying they reached 60 miles an hour and they passed 200 people,” McCoy said.

Other members of Atlas Cider and their split times:

• Kelly Simpson, alpine ski, 2:04.

• Robbie Donohue, trail run, 13:58.

• Jason Tedrow, paddle, 18:02.