Gary Saunders spoiled the birthday party for Kayleen Urquhart when he staged a massive form reversal to win the handicap at Concongella last Saturday.
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Having finished near the tail of the field at his previous two starts, Saunders, at 75 the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s oldest runner, would have been at cricket score odds to win the five-and-a-half kilometre event.
But it was too easily forgotten that Saunders had, in fact, won the penultimate race of the 2017 cross country season just five starts before.
Saunders had over a minute of daylight to spare from Urquhart, with Sharon Howden next best.
In the sub junior race of 1000 metres the club’s most consistent youngster Olivia Hunter was too nippy for chasers Johnno Baker and Jack Urqhuart.
The club returns to Stawell on Saturday for the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap. Fun runners are welcome and should meet at the North Park clubrooms from 9.30am for a 10am start.
Andrew Reynolds ran a minute faster than he did at Rhymney a week before to win the five kilometre handicap event at Stawell on Sunday by a comfortable 0.19 minutes.
Reynolds’ first ever win with the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club came in 2013 at only his third run when he defeated the club’s runs record holder, Jack Trounson, by just four seconds.
On Sunday, it was Trounson again charging into second place at his 636th start, with another stalwart Keith Lofthouse battling in unseasonably warm and humid conditions to run third.
The club returns to Dunneworthy Common, Ararat, at 9.45am this Sunday for the five handicap. Fun runners are welcome.
