Iglesias ran in Werribee last week for the Mansion Fun Run; is in Melbourne next week for the Wings for Life World Run; she’ll Run the Gap at Halls Gap on May 22, the Run Forrest trail through the Otway Ranges in June and the Peaks and Trails Run at Dunkeld in August.

Iglesias is a running encyclopaedia on all the runs about the place and somehow she still finds time to compete on most Saturdays with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club.

All the training, trail running, endurance testing and dedication to her sport was rewarded again last Saturday when she ran the fastest 6.5 kilometres of her life to win the Telstra Shop Handicap at Horsham.

The fresh-faced 36-year-old, so used to hard slogs through steep hills and rugged terrain, made easy pickings of the flat, fast riverside course covering the distance in a tidy 30.12 minutes.

Dave Hunter chased her all the way but Iglesias opened up a gap of 20 seconds on the runner-up by the time they reached the timekeeper. Rob Blythman, who raced for the first time this season, was a promising third.

“The night training I’ve been doing for the Wings for Life has helped and club racing, now that it has started up again, gives you the race fitness you can’t get from training,”  Iglesias said.

The club has a bye this Mothers Day weekend but returns to Stawell on Saturday, May 14 for the eight kilometre Lindsay Kent Memorial, a combined Stawell and Ararat event.