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 […]
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The too often underrated Rhonda Rice has done it again! Judicious in picking and choosing races to her liking, she bobbed up for only the sixth time in the seventeenth race of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season to snatch victory in the 16 kilometre One More Step For Ray Rickard Handicap at Stawell last
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David Hunter’s late decision to run the Melbourne Marathon in October was a key factor in him notching his second cross country win for the season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday. Having won the eight kilometre Lindsay Kent Memorial in May, Hunter drifted in and out of form and motivation before he decided
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An emotional Terry Jenkins paid tribute to his old mate Ray Scott after winning the race he dearly wanted to win – the ten kilometre Run for Ray Handicap at Stawell on Saturday. The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race is held in memory of Ray Scott, a club stalwart who died tragically whilst training alone
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Luke Baker played a lot of football in his youth but injuries, niggling, nagging and serious led him to give the game away in his mid-20s when, like many a lapsed footballer before him, his weight soared to 100 kilograms. “I knew I had to do something about it, but nothing happened until I moved
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Wiry veteran Keith Lofthouse confounded the evidence of poor form this season by scoring a surprise win in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s leg of the eight kilometre Best’s Winery event last Saturday. Lofthouse runs with both the Amateurs and the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club at weekends but his form card with the
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In his maiden cross country win last year, Horsham runner Graeme Eldridge showed a liking for the hilly eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap course through the Ironbarks and franked that form by winning the same race last Saturday. In a dramatic drive to the line, Eldridge stuck on grimly to beat the fast-finishing Matilda Iglesias
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Luke Baker has had his first win with the club in the Rice Concongella Vineyard 6.5 kilometre Championship. Baker said that that, “I have been running for a bit over two years after a friend challenged me to get involved in the sport. I was nervous in my first run with the club, but the
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Naomi Hunter has posted her second win of the season on a new 6 kilometre course along the Wimmera River, sponsored by the Telstra Shop Horsham. Hunter finished in a time of 37.31 minutes, hotly pursued by husband David Hunter just 12 seconds behind. In third place, two minutes later was fastest runner Bal Sukpreet.
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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
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