In terms of personal targets, Horsham running coach Rick Price sets himself only modest goals but he achieved at least one of those when he recorded fastest time to win the five kilometre David O Jones Mitre 10 Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. After an outstanding debut season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in […]
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Ararat council worker Tony Davey had never run more than five kilometres in his life before he turned up in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday with more natural ability than even he imagined and cruised to an effortless win on debut with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club. Tony, 42, received a generous mark from the
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Endurance athlete Susie Ellis warmed up for a cold climate Iron Man event in Switzerland in July when she chased down the tearaway leader to headline an all-girl trifecta in the five kilometre Barham Insurance Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. The globetrotting Susie, who trains relentlessly and travels to some of the world’s most challenging
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The irrepressible Meggy Boan – a rare three time winner in her first season with our club last year – began her 2012 campaign with a stunning win in the five kilometre Dooen Engineering Handicap. When the waif-like Chinese expatriate made her cross country debut with the club in a 5km event last year she
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After being pipped on the post the previous week, Justine Tracey stormed to her second win of a record-breaking season with the club – the twelfth win by a female in 18 races. Never before in our 46-year history have the “fairer sex” handed out such a whipping to the males. They didn’t so much
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Sharon Howden ended a frustrating run of minor placings but not without a scare before winning the five kilometre Andrew Darnell Memorial Handicap at Horsham last Saturday. In 14 starts with the club this season, Sharon had recorded four seconds, five thirds and two fourths, most of those coming since her one win at Stawell
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Matilda Iglesias and Sharon Howden added to the misery of male performance this season when they fought out the finish of the Stan and Karen Watson five kilometre handicap at Stawell last Saturday. The Iglesias-Howden quinella was the second by females in 2012 but there has also been a brace of “fairer sex” trifectas. The
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A “refresher course” in correct running technique paid immediate dividends for Horsham runner Paul Atherton when he broke through for his first win in two years in the five kilometre Community Axis handicap, held at Haven near Horsham. Having recovered from a nagging hamstring complaint that was slow to respond to treatment and exercise, Paul,
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The unstoppable Meggy Boan continued to beat the odds when she stormed to her third win in her debut season with the club last Saturday. Every time the Chinese expatriate steps out in a five kilometre race she improves so much that club handicapper cannot keep up with her progress. Just as the grey-bearded Gary
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Rupanyup gardener Meggy Boan led an all girl charge through the twists and turns of the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday, defying the odds to record her second win with the club in three weeks. After an astonishing 88-second win in the eight kilometre Horsham Little Aths race at Haven earlier this month, Meggy copped a
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