Saturday 19th March was a perfect day for the opening race for the 2022 season. The Grampians Insurance Brokers handicap winner was Terry Jenkins with a great time of 27:30. Terry has been running over 50 km each week leading up to the race aiming to run 5 minutes per kilometre. Terry has been running …
Keith Lofthouse’s barren season of cross country running with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club came to an abrupt halt last Saturday when he staged a dramatic form reversal to win the five kilometre King of the Mountain race at Halls Gap. In fourteen starts with the club in 2019 Lofthouse had not finished closer than …
Simon Edge hated cross-country running as a schoolboy but the Halls Gap school-teacher was telling a different story after he won the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s five kilometre King of the Mountain at Hall’s Gap on Saturday. “I’ve played footy in Queensland, cricket and competed in triathlons, but never in my life before have a …
Champion schoolboy athlete Tom Walker added yet another feather to his colourfully plumed cap when he brilliantly won the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s King of the Mountain at Halls Gap last Saturday. During the week, the sixteen-year-old speedster had smashed peer-group runners to win the 800, 1500, and 3000 metres events at the Great Western …
A random venture to Bacchus Marsh in 2011 for a cross country carnival with a boy who loves to run culminated in a family double at Halls Gap last Saturday when a father and son snatched a unique double in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s King of the Mountain. Much like the excursion at Bacchus …
Peter Barham had heard tall tales but true about the “hill of horrors” at Troopers Camp but tackled it for the first time in atrocious conditions last Saturday and scored an emotional second win this season with the Club. The torturous ten kilometre Run for Ray over treacherous rocks, boulders and exposed tree roots seemed …
It’s taken two years, 30 races and an astonishing back-to-back win but male athletes with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club finally cracked it for a one, two, three finish in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Females have been dominant, winning 17 of the 30 and landing a host of “quinellas” …
Flushed with the success of dual victories in professional ranks already this season, 70-year-old running phenomenon Gary Saunders returned to amateur ranks at Halls Gap last Saturday for an astounding win in the handicap section of the prestigious King of the Mountain. The man from Deep Lead with the bushy grey beard traditionally gains momentum …
The amazing transformation of former Horsham couch potato Tim Harris into a formidable athlete rolled on at Roses Gap last Saturday when he tamed the infamous “hill of horrors” at Roses Gap to win the toughest race on the club’s calendar. The reborn Tim, who once found it difficult to roll his 100 kilogram bulk …
Mountain goat Anthony Morey made a mockery of the claim that the Oscar’s Furniture race at Rose’s Gap is one of the toughest eleven kilometres on the masochist’s calendar when he used the event as a warm-up for the Adelaide Half-Marathon on Sunday – and won! Anthony, 33, who only commenced competitive cross country last …
