David Hunter is a changed man since he began running the competitive cross country with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2013. In that time he has won “three or four “races; has stepped up from half-marathons to run his first full marathon last year, won the club aggregate in 2016 and above all has […]
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Rob Blythman warmed up for his first tilt at the Great Ocean Road Marathon in May by dispatching one of the hottest fields the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club could boast in the season opener at Stawell last Saturday. Built like a sprinter but training for long distance, Blythman, from a favourable handicap, made up for
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Endurance specialist Matilda Iglesias scored one of the luckiest wins in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s 50-year history when she pipped greybeard Gary Saunders on the post in the five kilometre Horsham Physiotherapy and Podiatry Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Saunders, the 74-year-old club Methuselah, had stopped a few metres short of the line, losing
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If the Stan and Karen Watson five kilometre handicap was a horse race the whimsical Irishman Sven O’Flynn would have started at odds of 100-1. Prince of Penzance proved that 100-1 outsiders do win races, even Melbourne Cups, but it’s fair to say that even the Prince before his big race had better form
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Kayleen Urquhart warmed up for a tilt at the Sydney Marathon in September by breaking through for her first-ever cross country win in the Stephen Baird five kilometre handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Urquhart, whose running goal is to finish a marathon in every state and territory in Australia, had won triathlons with Melbourne’s
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Inspired by husband Gary’s post-holiday win just three days after stepping off a plane from Los Angeles, wife Sharon Howden emulated his feat by winning the David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell exactly one week later. Sharon finished eighth, more than three minutes behind Gary in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s eight kilometre
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Stawell Amateur Athletic Club champion Nathaniel Warren is on track for a tilt at a three hour Adelaide Marathon in August after his barnstorming finish to snatch victory in the five kilometre Axis Employment Handicap at Stawell on Saturday. Lying tenth with a kilometre to run, Warren was working hard and looked out of contention
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Phillip Cole estimated that he might be able to run five kilometres in 25 minutes when he made his debut with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club at Stawell last Saturday. He was handicapped accordingly. Imagine his surprise when he knocked nearly three minutes off that “guestimate” to win the Rupanyup Garden Centre Handicap by a
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Stawell geologist Justine Tracey took up running in 2012 as the result of a pub bet with a workmate. Her dedication to training and racing has been sporadic since then – but she is still running and her workmate is not. All bets were off before the five kilometre Hunter Landscaping and Gardening Handicap at
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There were times in Jess Cass’s life that the very thought of clocking milestones weighed like a millstone. Cass was 28 when she started running just 18 months ago. Until then she had never run a single kilometre in her life and, apart from dabbling in a few sessions of lawn bowls, had never played
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