On a wet, rainy dreary day SAAC traveled to Rupanyup for the Tylers’ Hardware 8km Handicap. Adrian and Kel Tyler both ran the course and Vicki Tyler provided morning tea and an amazing cake for the raffle prize. Adrian finished in just over 40 minutes with a very consistent effort and Kel crossed the line […]
Rupanyup
The Stawell Amateur Athletics Club travelled to Rupanyup Saturday 8th May for the eight kilometre Tyler’s Hardware race. Adrian, Kelvin and Vicki Tyler have a long association with the club and all participated in the field of 26 runners. Jess Cass had the fastest time for the females 36:53 while Nathan Baker had the fastest
After long, hard days of digging, lifting, hauling and shifting Stawell landscaper David Hunter finds it difficult to find the motivation to get out and run. He trains for perhaps “one or two days a week” but that was enough to have him primed for the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s eight kilometre Tyler’s Rural Handicap
Veteran cross country runner Keith Lofthouse surprised even himself when he won the eight kilometre Tyler’s Rural Handicap for the third year in a row and a fourth time overall at Rupanyup on Saturday. From eight starts in the race, Lofthouse has only once finished further back than third. But at the post race presentation,
The planets aligned yet again for veteran cross country runner Keith Lofthouse when he easily won the 7.7 kilometre Tyler’s Hardware and Rural Handicap for the third time at Rupanyup last Saturday. “Somehow I seem to grow another leg for this race,” said the sixty-seven-year-old who repeated his success of last year, and has now
“Jack’s Track” specialist Keith Lofthouse returned to the scene of his first race success with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club and staged a form reversal to post an easy win in the eight kilometre Tyler’s Hardware Handicap at Rupanyup last Saturday. The inaugural winner of the race in 2009, the veteran has finished second, two
Stawell Amateur Athletic Club rookie Narelle Bubb was the forgotten runner in the eight kilometre Tyler’s Hardware race at Rupanyup last Saturday and, boy, did she make the chasers pay! After six runs with the club, finishing no closer than ninth, the running mum was a rank outsider – in racing parlance a 50-1 shot
Horsham runner Selina Heard-Price overcame her “second season blues” with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club to bounce back in her third year with an overdue win in the eight kilometre Tylers Hardware Handicap at Rupanyup last Saturday. “Slim Jane” Selina and her partner Rick Price enjoyed a stunning rookie season with the club in 2011
Our favourite Gaynor Radovic learned a valuable tactical lesson recently when she travelled to Melbourne to take on some of the best performed cross country runners in Victoria in the Caruana Classic over eight kilometres, held on May 20th. By her own admission, the veteran campaigner had “no chance” of winning, but she led the