Col Barnett, one of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s most decorated runners, recorded one of the most satisfying wins of his long career in the ten kilometre Run for Ray at Stawell last Saturday.
“I’ve been for five years, I’m running a minute quicker than I did last year and I’m...
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Greybeard Gary Saunders defied age, ten kilometres of hills, water hazards, tree roots and stones and a determined former club champion to easily win the fifth Run For Ray Scott at Stawell last Saturday.
Saunders, who will turn seventy-five in October, received 22 minutes start from Colin Barnett in the Stawell...
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Former running heavyweight Tim Harris overcame a near disastrous navigational error on course to race away with the ten kilometre Stawell Sportspower Handicap last Saturday.
After training up to 80 kilometres a week in preparation for the Adelaide Marathon on August 14 Harris could be forgiven for settling into a trance-like...
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By his own admission landscape gardener and weekend runner Dave Hunter is reluctant to leave the comfort of home to work on his fitness between races with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club.
But, disappointed with his eighth place in the 10 kilometre Run for Ray Scott, Hunter decided to train hard...
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Veteran campaigner Keith Lofthouse combined a little inside knowledge with a wealth of experience to bustle his way to a clever win in the 10 kilometre Shane and Robyn Young Sportspower Handicap at Stawell last Saturday.
The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race was run as a “sealed” handicap which meant that...
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Horsham’s Gary Howden continued the unexpected dominance of male athletes over female in this Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season with a narrow win in the 10 kilometre Run for Ray Scott at Stawell last Saturday.
The club’s keen contingent of female runners have won more than half of the 40-odd races...
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Female runners with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club are on the threshold of a record-breaking 13th win in a single season after Rachel Coverdale seized on her home track advantage to win the 10 kilometre Shane and Robyn Young Sportspower Handicap at Stawell last Saturday.
Third in the Charlie Jones 16...
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Peter Barham had heard tall tales but true about the "hill of horrors" at Troopers Camp but tackled it for the first time in atrocious conditions last Saturday and scored an emotional second win this season with the Club.
The torturous ten kilometre Run for Ray over treacherous rocks, boulders and...
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Horsham’s Daryl Scollary reaped the benefits of a rare early morning training run to narrowly end the three race winning streak of the club’s female runners last Saturday.
The “fairer sex” had dominated the cross country season with 11 wins from 17 races and an even dozen looked certain when Justine...
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The amazing transformation of former Horsham couch potato Tim Harris into a formidable athlete rolled on at Roses Gap last Saturday when he tamed the infamous “hill of horrors” at Roses Gap to win the toughest race on the club’s calendar.
The reborn Tim, who once found it difficult to roll...
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