Schoolboy athlete Raine Mackley surfaced from a three year sabbatical to stun three time club champion Nathaniel Warren in the Dooen Engineeering Handicap last Saturday, the opening event of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s cross country season. The 15-year-old Mackley led all the way and defied Warren’s efforts to run him down in the five […]
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The unstoppable 72-year-old greybeard Gary Saunders surprised no one but himself when he opened the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season with a slogging win in the five kilometre Dooen Engineering Handicap in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Club-mates know never to doubt the redoubtable veteran who year after year has proven himself to be one
The irrepressible Meggy Boan – a rare three time winner in her first season with our club last year – began her 2012 campaign with a stunning win in the five kilometre Dooen Engineering Handicap. When the waif-like Chinese expatriate made her cross country debut with the club in a 5km event last year she
The rebirth of former Horsham 100 kilogram couch-potato Tim Harris rolled on at full force last Saturday when he skipped away with the opening event of the Stawell Athletic Club season despite a near catastrophe during the running. The big-boned Tim was looking like a winner with just a kilometre to travel in the five
In a remarkable warm-up for the opening event of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season, club president Gary Howden trained in China, Vietnam, Thailand and finally in Horsham before winning the five kilometer Dooen Engineering Handicap, held in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Seeming refreshed and invigorated after his extended business and pleasure trip to
Nhill runner Peter Cutler drove 300 kilometres in a round trip to run just five kilometres with his new club last Saturday, but went home a winner after leading all the way in the Dooen Engineering Handicap. Beginning brilliantly to establish an early break over “gun” runners David McAllister and Nathaniel Warren, Cutler cut a
After the long summer break, the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club staged its first race for the 2009 season with the 5km Dooen Engineering Handicap, held last Saturday. Staged as a Sealed Handicap, all runners set off together, with handicaps applied after the race. The mild but overcast conditions were ideal, as the senior runners set
Stawell Amateur Athletics Club runner and triathlete Gary Howden stormed home to score a clear win in last Saturdays 5km Dooen Engineering Handicap, held in the Iron Bark forest north of Stawell. Mild temperatures and mainly overcast skies provided ideal running conditions for the 29 senior runners who lined up for the second race of
The 2007 Stawell Amateur Athletic Club cross country season opened on a high note last Saturday with the Dooen Engineering Sealed handicap. Twenty-nine runners lined up in quite warm conditions for the senior 5km event, held over an undulating course through the Iron Bark forest on the edge of the Stawell township. Staged as a
Good early season training paid dividends for Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner Marg Hyde when she took out the first race of the 2006 cross country season, the Dooen Engineering Handicap. Held last Saturday in perfect running conditions through the bush reserve north of Stawell, twenty-six senior runners lined up for the challenging 5000 metre