Stawell Amateur Athletic Club secretary Naomi Hunter was running on adrenalin when she scooted to a surprisingly easy win in the five kilometre Ivan McDonald Handicap at Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday. Hunter found herself burdened by extra duties due to the absence of club President, Jess Cass, who was holidaying in New South Wales, […]
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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
Wily veteran Keith Lofthouse travelled to Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday with some confidence that he could finish the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season with a third win. But then world class ultra-marathoner Kieran Ryan, more than half his age and more than twice his speed, arrived just five minutes before the start of the
Landscape gardener, golfer and cricketer Dave Hunter put down the tools, the clubs, and the pads and ran for his life at Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday to achieve something he didn’t think possible at the start of 2013. Showing the benefit of his rookie season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, Hunter took control
Husband and wife team Rick Price and Selina Heard-Price capped off an amazing rookie season with our club when Rick notched an unprecedented fourth win for the couple in the five kilometre McDonald’s Hairdressing Handicap, held at Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday. “Slim Jane” Selina started the juggernaut rolling when she won at her first
Veteran campaigner Keith Lofthouse turned the sense of old failures into back to back victories in the five kilometre Ivan McDonald Hairdressing Handicap last Saturday. Keith recalled running second in the prestigious Eaglehawk to Bendigo road race in 2002, thinking it would be “the closest I’ll ever get to glory”, when he made plans to
Skipping races in Stawell to venture to Melbourne for two events sharpened up veteran campaigner Keith Lofthouse, who went on to take out the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s season finale at Big Hill last Saturday. Lofthouse finished a creditable sixth in the 16 kilometre George Perdon Memorial Handicap at Keilor on August 30 but then