A feat never seen in the 56 years of SAAC races, 60+-year-old runner Terry Jenkins bags his third race victory for the season from four starts. Terry’s last win was back in 2018 in the Run for Ray handicap. Training almost every day of the school holidays leading up to the run, Terry had a …
A warm up in the Lindsay Kent Memorial Fun Run at Stawell on April 4 was the perfect tune-up for cross-country rookie Drew Christian who six days later won the first race of his adult life at Concongella last Saturday, just weeks before he turned fifty. Christian’s competitive juices were ignited by a second on …
Vicki Tyler made amends for a barren season of racing in 2018 by leading an all-girl charge to a surprise win in the five-and-a-half kilometre Hunter Gardens and Landscaping Handicap at Concongella last Saturday. In twelve runs with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last season, Tyler managed just one-third placing but had otherwise finished no …
Whiskered warrior Gary Saunders spoiled the birthday party for Kayleen Urquhart when he staged a massive form reversal to win the Hunter Gardens and Landscaping Handicap at Concongella last Saturday. Having finished near the tale of the field (fifteenth and twelfth) at his previous two starts, Saunders, at seventy-five the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s oldest …
David Hunter is a changed man since he began running the competitive cross country with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2013. In that time he has won “three or four “races; has stepped up from half-marathons to run his first full marathon last year, won the club aggregate in 2016 and above all has …
Stawell geologist Justine Tracey took up running in 2012 as the result of a pub bet with a workmate. Her dedication to training and racing has been sporadic since then – but she is still running and her workmate is not. All bets were off before the five kilometre Hunter Landscaping and Gardening Handicap at …
