The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s reigning champion Nathaniel Warren is on target for a sixth title, despite being blown away by a talented fun runner in the 6.5 kilometre Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday. The twenty-nine-year-old Warren is perhaps the fastest policeman in the state over a distance but, by his own admission, “couldn’t keep …
By his own admission 47-year-old Tim Harris won the battle of the bulge but then like a freight train “ran off the rails” and lost the battle all over again. Harris is a big bloke who has always carried extra weight, but then an unhealthy lot more when he starts to believe the battle is …
Sharon Howden beat the odds by beating the handicapper to post back to back wins with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday. The Horsham-based runner paid the price for winning the five kilometre Barham Insurance race on April 11 and was pulled back on the starting grid – meaning she had to concede extra …
In 2012 Matilda Iglesias made her debut with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club never expecting the “miracle” of actually winning a race. She made nonsense of that at only her fourth start when staving off the fast-finishing Col Barnett to salute in the 6.5 kilometre Garry Rice Concongella Vineyards Handicap and last Saturday she stood …
Thirty-six year-old running rookie Nathan Baker established himself as a sporting all-rounder when, at only his third start with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, broke his maiden status by winning the 6.5 kilometre Advance Bricks and Pavers Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Already a 20-year basketballer and Vice President of the Stawell Tennis Club, Baker …
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. …
All-girl quinellas used to be a rarity in Stawell Amateur Athletic Club races but with the flying femmes having won six of the nine races so far this season they have almost become the norm. When Rachel Coverdale and Rhonda Clark fought out the finish of the Garry Rice Concongella Vineyard Handicap last Saturday it …
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 …
The flying femme phenomenon rolled on at the Concongella Vineyards last Saturday when Matilda Iglesias waltzed to her maiden win – the seventh by a female in nine races this season. Having only her fourth run with the club Matilda nipped round the picturesque 6.5 kilometre circuit, notable for its sharp turns and gentle slopes, …
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 …
