Good early season training paid dividends for Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner Marg Hyde when she took out the first race of the 2006 cross country season, the Dooen Engineering Handicap. Held last Saturday in perfect running conditions through the bush reserve north of Stawell, twenty-six senior runners lined up for the challenging 5000 metre …
President’s Handicap The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club held its final race for the season over the usual 5km Big Hill course, in cold, often drizzly conditions. Twenty-four senior runners lined up for the start, with Aggregate leader Peter Steggall running in spite of a cold, to protect his 10 point margin over Col Barnett. Steggall …
A smaller field of 18 senior Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runners lined up for the Garry Rice Handicap, held near the Dadwells Bridge caravan park in unseasonally warm conditions. Numbers were down due to a number of regular runners being absent at the Adelaide Marathon, to be held on the following day. The 5km course …
Stawell Sportspower Handicap & Grand Prix Long time club member and veteran runner Gary Saunders proved that being the eldest runner in the field was no barrier when he held off all challengers to take out the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club Sportspower Handicap last Saturday, held over a fast 5000m course in the Three Jacks …
Allison Dugdale, after a year off to have a baby, has come back stronger than ever to take out the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club Time Keeper’s Sealed Handicap 5km Championship (what a mouthfull!) last Saturday. The race was held over a challenging 5000m course through the Iron Bark Reserve north of Stawell. Being a combined …
Warm dry conditions greeted the 22 senior, 7 junior and 11 sub-junior cross country runners who lined up for the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club Stephen Baird Handicap. The course took in the Bonnie Dundee Dam at the north end of the Iron Bark Reserve, with a few long steady hill climbs, and the most challenging …
Parnaby Pace Sealed Handicap Stawell Amateur Athletic Club launched the 2005 cross country running season with the Parnaby Pace Sealed Handicap, held in perfect conditions in the Iron Barks reserve north of Stawell. Twenty-three senior runners lined up for the challenging 5000 metre course. Being a sealed handicap, with all runners starting together and handicaps …
President’s Handicap Bob Freeland topped off a great running season by taking out the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club President’s Handicap last Saturday, held over a challenging Big Hill course. Being the last race of the year, and with the senior and junior aggregates as well as the teams trophy all still up for grabs, it …
Alexa Duke continued her impressive form this season to take out the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club Garry Rice Handicap held last Saturday at Dadwells Bridge. Run over a flat 5km course, 22 senior runners lined up for the third last race of the season. Finding the flat conditions to her liking, Duke forged to the …
Stawell Amateur Athletic Club held one of its feature races for the season on Saturday. The Stephen Baird Handicap is the only race where first place receives a sash. A field of 23 runners eagerly lined up for the 5km senior event held near the Bonnie Dundee Dam in the ironbarks just north of Stawell. …