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 …
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 …
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 …
Life changed dramatically for Horsham factory worker Tim Harris when, bent on “finding a new purpose in life,” he decided to take up running in August last year. He ended his Saturday afternoon ritual of “barbecues and beers”, joined the Horsham Running Club, dropped 20 kilograms in weight, and his transformation culminated in a decisive …
Dave McAllister bounced back from the disappointment of blowing his winning chance in the Andrew Darnell race at Horsham a fortnight ago, making no mistake in the Tyler’s Hardware Handicap, run over seven and a half kilometres at Rupanyup last Saturday. Conceding up to 16 minutes start to the front-markers, the relentless Dave rounded up …
