Born-again sportswoman Selina Heard-Price continued her remarkable transformation into a competitive runner when she strolled to her second win of the season in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap, held near Stawell last Saturday. After spending most of her sporting life as a netballer, badminton and squash player, Selina joined a our running club for …
Horsham iron-woman Susie Ellis kept her vice-like grip on the Lois Trimble Queen of the Mountain title when she out-gunned many potential Kings in the gruelling three-kilometre hill climb at Halls Gap on Saturday. Skimming over the jagged rocks and loose stones as if they were pebbles on the treacherous rise above Tandara Road, “Super” …
A grimly determined Paul Atherton broke a four year drought with the club when he mastered the “hill of horrors”, to win the Oscar Furniture Troopers Camp Handicap. The race was held over eleven gruelling kilometres at Roses Gap last Saturday. Paul had not won since the much less demanding race at Dadswells Bridge in …
Spurred on by the embarrassment of a self-confessed bulging waistline, Bob Freeland, a foundation member of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, turned back the clock to win his first race in 14 months at Haven Hall, near Horsham, on Saturday. Suited by the fast and flat nature of the five kilometre course, the easiest on …
A grimly determined Rhonda Clark reversed recent narrow defeats, with a slender victory in the handicap section of the Advance Bricks-sponsored King of the Mountain, held at Halls Gap last Saturday. Gritting her teeth for the punishing three kilometre climb after being pipped at the post by Col Barnett at Stawell last start, and going …
Stawell Amateur Athletic Club rookie David McAllister stunned more seasoned runners with a pugnacious “first-up” win in the Oscar Furniture Troopers Camp Handicap at Roses Gap last Saturday. Until recently McAllister, who had previously focused on organised fun runs, marathons and charity runs, was content to spend his Saturday afternoons pumping iron or pounding out …
Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner Nathaniel Warren made short work of the club’s annual Advance Bricks King of the Mountain last Saturday, charging up the steep 3km Mount Rosea course in just under 13 minutes. Held as a sealed handicap, all runners started together, with first runner home taking the King of the Mountain title, …
A fine clear day greeted the 22 senior runners who fronted for the Troopers Camp Handicap, held from Troopers Camp on the Roses Gap to Wartook Road, in the Grampians. Run as a sealed handicap, all runners set off together to tackle the challenging 11km course, which took in a very steep climb over one …
Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner Kieran Ryan made short work of the club’s annual Advance Bricks King of the Mountain last Saturday, charging up the steep 3km Mount Rosea course in just under 12 minutes. Held as a sealed handicap, all runners started together, with first runner home taking the King of the Mountain title, …
Making up for his poor season last year, Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner John Collins produced another strong performance last Saturday to score his second win for the season, taking out the 11 kilometer Trooper’s Camp Handicap. Set over a hilly circular course from Troopers Camp in the Grampians, Collins pushed hard all the way, …