A random venture to Bacchus Marsh in 2011 for a cross country carnival with a boy who loves to run culminated in a family double at Halls Gap last Saturday when a father and son snatched a unique double in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s King of the Mountain. Much like the excursion at Bacchus …
Flushed with the success of dual victories in professional ranks already this season, 70-year-old running phenomenon Gary Saunders returned to amateur ranks at Halls Gap last Saturday for an astounding win in the handicap section of the prestigious King of the Mountain. The man from Deep Lead with the bushy grey beard traditionally gains momentum …
Horsham iron-woman Susie Ellis kept her vice-like grip on the Lois Trimble Queen of the Mountain title when she out-gunned many potential Kings in the gruelling three-kilometre hill climb at Halls Gap on Saturday. Skimming over the jagged rocks and loose stones as if they were pebbles on the treacherous rise above Tandara Road, “Super” …
Skipping races in Stawell to venture to Melbourne for two events sharpened up veteran campaigner Keith Lofthouse, who went on to take out the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s season finale at Big Hill last Saturday. Lofthouse finished a creditable sixth in the 16 kilometre George Perdon Memorial Handicap at Keilor on August 30 but then …
The final race of the year, the Lois Trimble Handicap, was once again run over a tough 2 lap 5km course, around and over Stawell’s Big Hill. The weather usually seems to be either hot, or cold and wet, and this year it ran true to form with a fine, mostly sunny day and warm …
Having already cemented the Keith Haymes Senior Aggregate with a third placing last week, Nathaniel Warren topped off a very successful season by taking out the final race of the year, the Lois Trimble handicap. Held over Stawell’s Big Hill, the 20 senior runners tackled the testing 5km course in very warm conditions. By the …
Stawell Amateur Athletic Club teenager Karl Scott held off a late charge by father Ray to score his third win for the season, when he took out the Lois Trimble Handicap last Saturday. Twenty-three senior runners lined up in very warm conditions for the testing 5000m course over Stawell’s Big Hill. Carolyn Lehmann led the …
