Two sessions of acupuncture helped propel Nathan Baker to a surprise win in the ten kilometre Run For Ray Handicap at Stawell last Saturday, his first ever in a race of that distance. A dedicated trainer and competitor, Baker was crestfallen when a hamstring strain forced him to rest and to miss three races with […]
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An emotional Terry Jenkins paid tribute to his old mate Ray Scott after winning the race he dearly wanted to win – the ten kilometre Run for Ray Handicap at Stawell on Saturday. The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race is held in memory of Ray Scott, a club stalwart who died tragically whilst training alone
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Col Barnett, one of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s most decorated runners, recorded one of the most satisfying wins of his long career in the ten kilometre Run for Ray at Stawell last Saturday. “I’ve been for five years, I’m running a minute quicker than I did last year and I’m enjoying my running,” the
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Greybeard Gary Saunders defied age, ten kilometres of hills, water hazards, tree roots and stones and a determined former club champion to easily win the fifth Run For Ray Scott at Stawell last Saturday. Saunders, who will turn seventy-five in October, received 22 minutes start from Colin Barnett in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s
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Horsham’s Gary Howden continued the unexpected dominance of male athletes over female in this Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season with a narrow win in the 10 kilometre Run for Ray Scott at Stawell last Saturday. The club’s keen contingent of female runners have won more than half of the 40-odd races programmed by the club
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Peter Barham had heard tall tales but true about the “hill of horrors” at Troopers Camp but tackled it for the first time in atrocious conditions last Saturday and scored an emotional second win this season with the Club. The torturous ten kilometre Run for Ray over treacherous rocks, boulders and exposed tree roots seemed
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Horsham runners squared the ledger with their Stawell counterparts when Daryl Scollary converted three straight seconds into a maiden win in the five kilometre Run For Ray in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. It was a clean sweep for Horsham with four of Dayl’s “neighbours” – Col Barnett (the unofficial 2011 club champion), Selina Heard-Price,
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