A perfect Autumn morning greeted Stawell Amateur Athletic Club for the S & K Watson Handicap. Fourteen runners completed the roller coaster of hills in the challenging 5km course in the Ironbark Forest. This was the first staggered handicap start for the season. A close finish with a minute separating between first and third. Gary …
The S & K Watson handicap marked the 7th SAAC race of the season with 14 races to go. Thanks so much to Stan and Karen for their sponsorship and for coming along to support the race. Drew Christain claimed victory by 7 seconds over Elise Monaghan and then 4 seconds back was Claire Davies. …
After years of flirting with running clubs, but lacking the confidence to join, Rebecca Hurley finally connected with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club and broke through for her first win in any sort of foot race last Saturday. “I’m really not a runner,” she insisted after the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap, but …
Halls Gap masseuse Tina Baker has completed six half marathons in her twenty years of recreational running but never in her life had won a competitive foot race until she romped away with the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Baker was favourably handicapped in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club …
All the elements fell into place for Stawell geologist Rob Blythman last week when he accepted a transfer to the Northern Territory and then scored a timely win in the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap on Saturday in what may be his last race with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club. Blythman held on …
If the Stan and Karen Watson five kilometre handicap was a horse race the whimsical Irishman Sven O’Flynn would have started at odds of 100-1. Prince of Penzance proved that 100-1 outsiders do win races, even Melbourne Cups, but it’s fair to say that even the Prince before his big race had better form …
Running mum Matilda Iglesias has her own slant on an old expression “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” and finds that “a run a day keeps the cobwebs away.” Her dedication to a program of running at least one kilometre every day and two hour sessions that might build to 20 kilometres on …
Greybearded runner Gary Saunders likes to lead in his races and gets plenty of chances to do so as he is usually first to start in handicap races with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club. But he is entitled; at 72 years of age he is the club’s most senior member. With his large frame, flowing …
Motley Crue had a hit with Girls, Girls, Girls in 1987 and the girls of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club were singing that song after embarrassing the boys with another all-girl trifecta in the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap last Saturday. Not content with smashing the males in nine of the 17 races …
Matilda Iglesias and Sharon Howden added to the misery of male performance this season when they fought out the finish of the Stan and Karen Watson five kilometre handicap at Stawell last Saturday. The Iglesias-Howden quinella was the second by females in 2012 but there has also been a brace of “fairer sex” trifectas. The …
