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 …
Whiskered warrior Gary Saunders spoiled the birthday party for Kayleen Urquhart when he staged a massive form reversal to win the Hunter Gardens and Landscaping Handicap at Concongella last Saturday. Having finished near the tale of the field (fifteenth and twelfth) at his previous two starts, Saunders, at seventy-five the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s oldest …
Forced to quit A-grade netball and basketball due to a knee reconstruction, an overweight Amy Yole laughed at her doctor’s advice that she should take up cross country running. “It was something I had never given a moment’s thought to. To me, the suggestion came so far from left field that I just thought it …
This time last year trail and endurance runner Matilda Iglesias wondered if she would ever regain the level of fitness that made her the most regular of winners on the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club cross country calendar. Struck down with a severe cold in October 2016, Iglesias bulged a disc in her back during a …
INJURY-plagued veteran Gary Howden needed to “run like a grandma” to win the opening race of Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s cross country season at Stawell last Saturday. In the two years since his last win with the club, the 58-year-old has missed more than half a season and been uncompetitive due to nagging hamstring strains. …
Plagued with nagging foot problems for most of 2017 and thinking his fifty-year career would end, veteran runner Bob Freeland thought he would finish the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season in a whimper but instead has ended it in a bang. His win in the five kilometre Ivan McDonald Big Hill Handicap at Stawell on …
The cream rose to the top for the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday when schoolboy champion Tom Walker and multiple times club champion Col Barnett fought out the finish of the five kilometre Horsham Physiotherapy and Podiatry Handicap at Stawell. In Walker’s first full season with the club, the sixteen-year-old flyer finally shook off …
The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club staged its very own Clash of the Titans when orienteering giant Andrew Barnett and schoolboy champion Tom Walker fought out the finish of the five kilometre One More Step for Ray at Stawell last Saturday. Under the handicap conditions of the race, which honours the memory of club legend Ray …
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 …
It was a race for the ages (and ages) when three rising septuagenarians fought out the finish of the five kilometres David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell last Saturdaykilometres Jenkins, seventy in August, staved off the challenges of “youngsters” Stephen Baird, 66, and Keith Lofthouse, 68, to win his first race with the …
