Dust off your running shoes and crank up the excitement, because the Iron Barks hosted another epic cross-country adventure at the Pyke’s Cycles Handicap! New member Alex Prockter, fueled by dreams of a sub-3:30 marathon in October, absolutely crushed the 16km figure-eight course, proving his 100km+ weekly training is paying off! Tom Walker may have […]
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Third in the first race of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season and second in the next it didn’t seem likely that Jess Cass would have to wait seventeen races before breaking through in the sixteen kilometre Life Members Handicap, her first win in over two years. In the forty starts since winning Best’s Cross
The too often underrated Rhonda Rice has done it again! Judicious in picking and choosing races to her liking, she bobbed up for only the sixth time in the seventeenth race of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season to snatch victory in the 16 kilometre One More Step For Ray Rickard Handicap at Stawell last
Sharon Howden still managed a win despite taking a tumble near to the finish 5 seconds ahead of Vicki Tyler and coming in third Colin Barnett who was the winner of last week’s 10 kilometre race. Sharon said that was good to make amends for running an extra kilometre in last week’s race. “I had Vicki
It is perhaps the most astounding win in the 50-year history of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club. Venerable club founder Keith Haymes could not remember, let alone apprehend, that anyone, anywhere, could win a 16 kilometre handicap race by an unprecedented 7.12 minutes! After placing second behind Dave Hunter in the 10km Youngs Sportspower Handicap
Sandra Casey, hasn’t quite fulfilled the first of the goals she set for herself when she joined the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last year, but is rapidly zeroing in on a second. After winning her first race at Haven, near Horsham, just over a year ago, Casey declared that she wanted to run five kilometres
Female runners brought an abrupt end to male domination of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season when they filled the podium in the 16 kilometre Hyperno Melbourne Marathon Warm-Up on a challenging figure-eight course through the Stawell Ironbarks last Saturday. The slender figure of Meggy Boan literally jumped for joy after learning that she had
Bob Freeland, a “class of 1966” foundation member of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club sacrificed a week of “beer and biscuits” to win his first ever 16 kilometre Charlie Jones Handicap in the Stawell Ironbarks last Saturday. Freeland, 63, likes a beer but he is otherwise a dedicated adherent to a healthy diet and a
A barnstorming finish by club veteran Keith Lofthouse prevented the flying femmes from charging to an eighth win in the tenth race of the season through the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Only 16 seconds – one for each kilometre – thwarted Sharon Howden’s bid for a second victory this season after five thirds and an
Horsham runners issued an unspoken challenge to their comrades in Stawell when Glenn Ryan became the fifth athlete from further west to win a race with the club this season. Glenn’s win, the first of his short career, meant that the score is five-all in the ten races conducted by the cross-country club so far