Caught on the run with telephone in hand taking care of business in the Advance Bricks and Pavers Handicap at Stawell last Saturday, Meghann O’Brien dashed from the course not realising she had won on debut. A locum radiographer, O’Brien was on call in case of emergency and was anxious to finish the Stawell Amateur […]
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In a week in which Stawell received an overdue deluge, Nathan Baker emulated Peter Barham’s drought breaking-win of the previous week in posting his first cross-country win since 2014 in the five kilometre Axis Employment Handicap last Saturday. Like Barham, whose appearances with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club have been spasmodic over the past few
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Luke Baker played a lot of football in his youth but injuries, niggling, nagging and serious led him to give the game away in his mid-20s when, like many a lapsed footballer before him, his weight soared to 100 kilograms. “I knew I had to do something about it, but nothing happened until I moved
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Stawell Amateur Athletic Club champion Nathaniel Warren is on track for a tilt at a three hour Adelaide Marathon in August after his barnstorming finish to snatch victory in the five kilometre Axis Employment Handicap at Stawell on Saturday. Lying tenth with a kilometre to run, Warren was working hard and looked out of contention
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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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Working mum Sandra Casey joined the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club this year never expecting to actually win a race. She’s played quality tennis and rides a bike but only joined the running club at the urgings of fellow member Bridie Scollary and because her two boys Jacob and Logan, once they had a taste of
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A “refresher course” in correct running technique paid immediate dividends for Horsham runner Paul Atherton when he broke through for his first win in two years in the five kilometre Community Axis handicap, held at Haven near Horsham. Having recovered from a nagging hamstring complaint that was slow to respond to treatment and exercise, Paul,
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With Horsham runners featuring strongly on the leaders board over the majority of the season, Stawell runner Meg Parnaby has kept the winning theme following Rhonda Clarke’s win last week. With a major disruption in her training program, Meg Parnaby has shaken off the the effects of a “bruising slip at the supermarket” where she
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Spurred on by the embarrassment of a self-confessed bulging waistline, Bob Freeland, a foundation member of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, turned back the clock to win his first race in 14 months at Haven Hall, near Horsham, on Saturday. Suited by the fast and flat nature of the five kilometre course, the easiest on
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Gary Saunders found the basically flat conditions to his liking in last Saturday’s Community Axis Handicap, attacking the race from the start to take out the event by over 2 minutes. Run over a 5km bushland course at Haven, south of Horsham, runners had to negotiate several steep sided gullies along the way. Running from
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