Retired banker Bob Freeland, 65, is a prime example of someone who is never too old and never too weary. In the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday, Freeland was an easy winner of a Stawell Amateur Athletic Club handicap race after a normal week of training and exercise, a religious regimen of swimming, running, bike riding […]
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Ultra-marathoner Kieran Ryan returned to the roots of his running career with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club to outclass club-mates in the Stawell Toyota and Kia Handicap last Saturday. Fresh from a “life changing” trek along the 96 kilometres of Papua-New Guinea’s iconic Kokoda Trail, Ryan “shook out the cobwebs” for the Ironbarks race by
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After a gruelling 20 kilometre run in the Wings for Life World Run in Melbourne just six days earlier, endurance athlete Matilda Iglesias surprised herself when she was able to back up with a win in the five kilometre Andrew Darnell Memorial Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. A surprise starter in the Stawell Amateur Athletic
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Her speed is down, her stamina tested, her training trimmed and her back aching, but none of this stopped the relentless Meggy Boan from hobbling to a gutsy win in the Telstra Shop Handicap at Horsham last Saturday. Since joining the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2012, no runner has won more races and been
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