Rebecca Hurley might have to rethink her mantra that she is “not really a runner” after winning her second Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race just three starts after her maiden success in her rookie season. Twelfth and thirteenth in the Concongella Vineyards run the week before, Hurley and Naomi Hunter staged spectacular form reversals to […]
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Naomi Hunter has posted her second win of the season on a new 6 kilometre course along the Wimmera River, sponsored by the Telstra Shop Horsham. Hunter finished in a time of 37.31 minutes, hotly pursued by husband David Hunter just 12 seconds behind. In third place, two minutes later was fastest runner Bal Sukpreet.
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Grey-bearded veteran Terry Jenkins, who broke a sixteen-year drought by winning a Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race on June 3, received a time penalty, but still beat the handicapper by scoring back-to-back wins at Horsham last Saturday. In the five kilometre race on June 3, Jenkins gave his old training mate, Stephen Baird, 4.30 minutes
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Her speed is down, her stamina tested, her training trimmed and her back aching, but none of this stopped the relentless Meggy Boan from hobbling to a gutsy win in the Telstra Shop Handicap at Horsham last Saturday. Since joining the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2012, no runner has won more races and been
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Ryan at Top for Alaska Peaks Endurance athlete Kieran Ryan ran his usual 25 to 30 kilometres up and down the hills, trails and mountains of Halls Gap last Saturday, then travelled to Horsham later in the day and switched on the after burners to soar to a stunning win in the Telstra Shop Handicap.
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Rhonda Clark is one of those self-deprecating cross country runners who never thinks she has the ability to win but is as surprised as anyone when she does. The Concongella “plodder” thought she would run the slowest time when she faced the starter in the Gary Howden-sponsored Telstra Shop Handicap at Horsham on Saturday, but
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A drunken bet has improved the health and changed the life of a mum who broke through for her maiden win at only her third run with the club in the 6.5 kilometre Telstra Store Handicap at Horsham last Saturday. Justine Tracey, a geologist with the Stawell Gold Mines, made a bet with a colleague
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Gaynor Radovic broke an eight year drought with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club when she scored a plucky win in the 6 ½ kilometre Telstra Store Handicap at Horsham last Sunday. Showing her liking for the flat and fast courses that enable her to get some rhythm into her running, Gaynor looked a probable winner
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Stawell veteran runner Gary Saunders took the winter conditions in his stride, streeting the rest of the field to win Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s T-Life Handicap by nearly a minute. Thirteen runners tackled the 6.5km circuit along the banks of Horsham’s Wimmera river. With water levels up this year, runners were unable to cross the
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Horsham runner Kelvin Mills took the over warm conditions in his stride, streeting the rest of the field to win by over a minute in last Saturdays Horsham Telstra Shop Handicap. Twenty-one runners tackled the 6.5km circuit along the banks of the Wimmera river, taking advantage of the low water levels to cross the river
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