Ultra-marathoner Kieran Ryan returned to the roots of his running career with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club to outclass club-mates in the Stawell Toyota and Kia Handicap last Saturday. Fresh from a “life changing” trek along the 96 kilometres of Papua-New Guinea’s iconic Kokoda Trail, Ryan “shook out the cobwebs” for the Ironbarks race by […]
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After a gruelling 20 kilometre run in the Wings for Life World Run in Melbourne just six days earlier, endurance athlete Matilda Iglesias surprised herself when she was able to back up with a win in the five kilometre Andrew Darnell Memorial Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. A surprise starter in the Stawell Amateur Athletic
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Her speed is down, her stamina tested, her training trimmed and her back aching, but none of this stopped the relentless Meggy Boan from hobbling to a gutsy win in the Telstra Shop Handicap at Horsham last Saturday. Since joining the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2012, no runner has won more races and been
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Horsham’s Sharon Howden relied on a wealth of experience to turn back the clock last Saturday and win her first race with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club since September 2012. Uncertain about her level of fitness in her first event of the cross country season, the former club champion (female) began at a conservative pace
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Sharon Howden beat the odds by beating the handicapper to post back to back wins with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday. The Horsham-based runner paid the price for winning the five kilometre Barham Insurance race on April 11 and was pulled back on the starting grid – meaning she had to concede extra
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Schoolboy athlete Raine Mackley surfaced from a three year sabbatical to stun three time club champion Nathaniel Warren in the Dooen Engineeering Handicap last Saturday, the opening event of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s cross country season. The 15-year-old Mackley led all the way and defied Warren’s efforts to run him down in the five
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The President and Committee of Stawell Amateur Athletic Club extends to all members and officials, a warm welcome to season 2015 of cross-country running which enters a new era this year with a switch to morning runs from 10am. This will free up time for many of our members who wish to have their afternoons
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Changes to the 2015 Season Dear SAAC Members, At the Annual General Meeting of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Wednesday (10th December 2014) the committee decided on a number of significant changes. These were deemed necessary in the light of declining attendances, particularly over the last two years. Race times will now be @
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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
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Enigmatic runner Sven O’Flynn bemoaned the fact that he’d found the form so late in the season that enabled him to win a race last Saturday – his first with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club since 2010. O’Flynn runs for both the Stawell club (Saturdays) and the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club (Sundays) but
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