The picturesque vineyard of club life member Garry Rice was the location for the run on the 17 th of June. A varied cross-country course saw runners navigating grass and gravel weaving between the vines. The run was held in conjunction with the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club. Twenty-two Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runners …
Picture this: rolling vineyards bathed in sunshine, runners weaving through the vines like nimble grapes on the vine, and the sweet smell of victory in the air. That’s exactly what went down at the SAAC and SACCC combined run, hosted by club legend Garry Rice at his picturesque vineyard. Twenty-two athletes took on the varied …
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The SAAC combined with SACCC on a wet and wild Sunday for the third and last combined run of the 2022 season. Host and sponsor Gary & Rhonda Rice marked out a tough undulating 6.5km course around the vineyard. Elise Monaghan 34:04 was the fastest female and Andrew Sos was first across the line in …
For 6.4 kilometres of the 6.5 kilometre Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday it was a war of attrition between a fresh-faced rookie and a wily veteran…and it came down to a 100 metre sprint that finally blew the greybeard away. Michelle Dunn’s first win with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club was well overdue after her …
Luke Baker has had his first win with the club in the Rice Concongella Vineyard 6.5 kilometre Championship. Baker said that that, “I have been running for a bit over two years after a friend challenged me to get involved in the sport. I was nervous in my first run with the club, but the …
Matilda Iglesias, fully fit again after a long, slow recovery from freakish injury, returned to the scene of her very first win with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2012 to triumph in the Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday. A dedicated trail runner, the thirty-seven-year-old mum had built an impressive portfolio of endurance credits before …
The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s reigning champion Nathaniel Warren is on target for a sixth title, despite being blown away by a talented fun runner in the 6.5 kilometre Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday. The twenty-nine-year-old Warren is perhaps the fastest policeman in the state over a distance but, by his own admission, “couldn’t keep …
By his own admission 47-year-old Tim Harris won the battle of the bulge but then like a freight train “ran off the rails” and lost the battle all over again. Harris is a big bloke who has always carried extra weight, but then an unhealthy lot more when he starts to believe the battle is …
In 2012 Matilda Iglesias made her debut with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club never expecting the “miracle” of actually winning a race. She made nonsense of that at only her fourth start when staving off the fast-finishing Col Barnett to salute in the 6.5 kilometre Garry Rice Concongella Vineyards Handicap and last Saturday she stood …
All-girl quinellas used to be a rarity in Stawell Amateur Athletic Club races but with the flying femmes having won six of the nine races so far this season they have almost become the norm. When Rachel Coverdale and Rhonda Clark fought out the finish of the Garry Rice Concongella Vineyard Handicap last Saturday it …
