This week’s handicap run was the 8km Stawell Toyota handicap held out in the Stawell Ironbarks. The sub-juniors were off first. The course for the subbies was different to that of last year’s event. This year it was a downhill start with an uphill finish. I ran with Miles just so I could monitor his
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This race was on, off, and on again for me. First, it was on because I was working a 2-10 pm shift. Then it was off because someone had called in sick, and I needed to do the opening shift 6:30-2:30 pm. Then it was back on again because my shift got moved back to
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This race review is late.The Sealed Dooen Engineering handicap happened on 28th March 2015.However, due to working full time over the Easter break, I was unable to get a review in earlier. The SAAC race season has officially kicked off with the Dooen Engineering Sealed Handicap. It was a 5km course set out in
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Name: Hyperno Melbourne Marathon Warm up Distance: 16km Location: Stawell Ironbarks Hyperno was a race horse who won the Melbourne cup in 1979. The Melbourne Marathon will be running on the 12th October. I’m telling you this random information because I simply can. This particular club run use to be the Charlie Jones Handicap. However Charlie
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You can learn alot from a run, and let me tell you I learned a lot from this weeks club run the Stawell Youngs Sportspower 10km handicap. Only 7 runners turned up to run the senior event, with 5 of those runners being females. It’s sad that it was such a small group, as it
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Spring was definitely in the air in the last week of winter, and it was just divine. For this weeks club run, I had to dust off the running shorts and singlet because it was warm and sunny. The sun was out and it was just glorious.The kids were off first. Miles had a nice
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It was a fine Autumn day for run club. The sun was out and it was shining, and it was lovely and warm, perfect temperature for this weeks run, which was the Barham Insurance handicap. Unlike last weeks race, our handicap’s were revealed prior to the run. Slower runners starting first and the faster runners
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The Stawell Running Club season opens with the Dooen Engineering Sealed Handicap. I missed this race in 2013 as I was in Geelong to run the Geelong Half Marathon. I’m glad the running season is open for the year, it keeps me motivated and pushes me to get faster. The first race for the year
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I woke up in the morning and looked out the window – Sunny. I thought to myself, ok well this is promising, forecast does predict rain, so we will see. The clouds came over after breakfast. It was still reasonably ok. I mean it wasn’t raining or anything. After a clean-up and some light gardening
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A friend of mine told me the other day, that it’s only 3 weeks until Spring. I thought about it, and yes, she is quite right. Mind you this was on a day where it was like 10c | 50f and it was cold, wet, and windy. So yes even though spring might only be
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