BALLARAT athletes monopolised placings in the Lorne Mountain to Surf run.Nathan Hartigan topped more than 2000 runners in the eight-kilometre event through the township on Friday night to clock a winning time of 23 minutes, 26 seconds.Hartigan reversed last summer's runner-up effort to edge out Steve Moneghetti and fellow Ballarat runner and defending champion James Attard.The 24-year-old dug deep to reel in Attard and Moneghetti, who had broken away in the forest leg, with less than 200m to the line.Ballarat claimed seven of the top 12 placings in the men's event. Moneghetti said the Ballarat domination was the result of hard training together across the Christmas break.Hartigan will turn his attention to the world cross country trials in Canberra next month.Meanwhile, Ballarat's Holly Burton took second in the elite female "Superfish" section of the Pier to Pub on Saturday.The 20-year-old was unlucky not to win the 1.2km swim _ one of the world's largest ocean swims _ with only a lost wave on the way in the difference.Burton thought she had lost the wave and looked up to find the next one, only to realise if she swam hard she would have stayed on it.She could only watch as Geelong's Harriet Brown caught the same wave to victory."But that's the beauty of ocean swimming," the sporting Burton said.She now heads to Torquay for the Danger 1000 Ocean Swim on Saturday.