Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club president, Peter Gibson, believes history was created on Sunday when veteran runner Keith Lofthouse won the race Gibson sponsors at Ararat’s Dunneworthy Common.
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“I don’t think anyone in our 51 years has ever managed to win the same sponsored race in three consecutive years,” Gibson said at the post-race presentation.
“I’m a real horses for courses runner,” Lofthouse said, “and Peter’s course with its long flat stretch and gradual incline to the one big hill before a fast downhill suits me down to the ground.”
The fourth running of the Gibson was dominated by stalwarts, Lofthouse the youngest at age 69, winning the eight-kilometre event from septuagenarians Gary Saunders and Jack Trounson who have notched just on 1240 club runs between all three.
The five-kilometre Clem Hall Memorial in Stawell this Sunday is the club’s penultimate race of the season.
