Naomi Hunter became our sixth winning female in the last seven races when she captured the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club division of the eight kilometre Best’s Cross Country Classic. Now fully recovered from a nagging achilles injury, Hunter had reason to smile with a stunning two minutes to spare from evergreen Gary Saunders in the …
Rookie Kate Field broke through at only her third official run with the Stawell Club, edging out fellow novice Michelle Dunn who was unlucky not to win the week before after mistaking the course. Seventy-seven-year-old greybeard Gary Saunders was a gallant third. “This is a real surprise to me,” an excited Field said. “I never …
Wiry veteran Keith Lofthouse confounded the evidence of poor form this season by scoring a surprise win in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s leg of the eight kilometre Best’s Winery event last Saturday. Lofthouse runs with both the Amateurs and the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club at weekends but his form card with the …
In his maiden cross country win last year, Horsham runner Graeme Eldridge showed a liking for the hilly eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap course through the Ironbarks and franked that form by winning the same race last Saturday. In a dramatic drive to the line, Eldridge stuck on grimly to beat the fast-finishing Matilda Iglesias …
Terry Jenkins has posted his first win this season after a stellar performance last year despite ongoing trouble with his achilles tendon. Terry has been a top runner with the club over many years but was forced to take a break until recently due to this issue. Last year in the clubs second race he …
David Hunter’s tale of woe about his battle to be a cross country runner again almost rivalled that of his wife Naomi’s but all ended well last Saturday when he emulated Naomi’s maiden win from seven days before. Naomi had taken 12 months to recover from a ruptured Achilles tendon while David had his own …
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Graeme Eldridge is proof positive that everyone can run, even those who say they can’t. After winning the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota and Kia Handicap at Stawell on Saturday, the fifty-eight-year-old Eldridge couldn’t believe what he had just achieved. “I’ve always been a walker, but never a runner,” he said. Eldridge started to jog 18 …
Thanks in large to a blistering run by young gun Tom Walker, our club was finally able to wrest the Telstra Shop Shield from the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club, which had dominated the Lindsay Kent Memorial Handicap for the past five years. Tom’s scintillating 28.22 minutes for the eight kilometres was just on …
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It was a day of doubles, dominated by the girls, when the region’s running clubs got together for the inaugural Best’s Winery Cross Country Classic at Great Western last Saturday. Kayleen Urquhart and Sharon Howen, who fought out the finish of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap the previous weekend, stunned …
From the rolling hills of San Francisco, to the High Line of New York, to Mission Beach at San Diego Gary Howden ran everywhere he could while on a three week holiday and was rewarded with a win in the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap at Stawell last Saturday just two days after his return. …
