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Coniston Fell Race
The Coniston Fell Race is an annual Lake District fell race held in April or May, starting and finishing in the village of Coniston. The route is approximately in length with of ascent and takes in checkpoints on the summits of Wetherlam, Swirl How and the Old Man of Coniston. History The race was first run in 1982 and quickly became popular, attracting some of the best fell runners. In 1985, a bottleneck at the start of the route with 560 runners caused an entry limit of 400 to be introduced for future editions. In 2016, inclement weather in the days leading up to the race resulted in a shorter route being used, avoiding some of the higher ground. Coniston has been one of the counting races in the British or English Fell Running Championships on several occasions. Results The men's record is held by Ian Holmes with a time of 1:03:29, set in 1996. Coniston was an English and British championship race that year and despite Mark Kinch running what he described as "the perfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains (or ''fells''), and its associations with William Wordsworth and other Lake Poets and also with Beatrix Potter and John Ruskin. The Lake District National Park was established in 1951 and covers an area of . It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. The Lake District is today completely within Cumbria, a county and administrative unit created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. However, it was historically divided between three English counties ( Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire), sometimes referred to as the Lakes Counties. The three counties met at the Three Shire Stone on Wrynose Pass in the southern fells west of Ambleside. All the land in England higher than above sea level lies within the National Park, including Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Stuart
Kenny Stuart (born 25 February 1957 in Penrith) is a former fell and road runner from Threlkeld in the Lake District. Early in his career, when there was still a split between professional and amateur fell racing, Stuart competed in professional races, converting to amateur status in 1982. His first full amateur season in 1983 was marked by close competition with John Wild who had won the previous year's championship. Stuart won the last 1983 championship race at Thieveley Pike, thereby becoming British champion. Stuart was also British champion in 1984 and 1985 and among the course records he set in those years were 1:02:18 at Skiddaw, 1:25:34 at Ben Nevis, 1:02:29 at Snowdon, and 3:20:57 at the Ennerdale Horseshoe, all of which still stand. In 1985 he won the short race at the inaugural World Mountain Running Cup in Italy. Kenny married fellow fell runner Pauline Haworth in 1985. In 1986, Stuart turned his attention to road running and won his debut marathon that year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Hope (runner)
Robert Hope (born 3 June 1974) is an English runner who has been a national fell running champion several times and who has represented his country at the World Mountain Running Trophy. Hope had some success in fell running as a junior athlete, being the English champion in the under-20 age group in 1994. The next year, he won his local race, Rivington Pike, where he went on to be victorious several more times in later years. He was runner-up to Ian Holmes in the 2002 English Fell Running Championships and had a noteworthy set of victories at Burnsall, Grasmere and Kilnsey that year, winning all three races within four days. He was joint winner (with Simon Bailey) in the English Championships in 2005 due in part to his triumph in the last race of the series at the Langdale Horseshoe immediately after returning from the World Mountain Running Trophy in New Zealand. Hope was the English champion again in 2010 and he won the British Fell Running Championships in 2007, 2008, 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Mason (fell Runner)
Edward Thomas "Ted" Mason (born 30 January 1979) is a Yorkshire-born farmer best known for his accomplishments as a fell runner. He grew up in Appletreewick near Grassington. He went to Burnsall V.A. Primary School, then Upper Wharfedale School in Threshfield. Upon leaving school he pursued a career as a farmer, gaining a Higher National Diploma in agriculture from Newton Rigg College, part of Askham Bryan College. Mason is a member of the Wharfedale Harriers, the British Open Fell Runners Association (BOFRA) and the Fell Runners Association (FRA). His fell running career began when he was ten years old, finishing last in a local race, and his first race win was at the age of nineteen at Beamsley Beacon. Ted's first championship race win was in 1999 at the BOFRA Hawkswick Dash. Turning at the summit, he was lying in fifth, but he quickly gained places on the descent going on to win in 11 minutes 38 seconds, 31 seconds ahead of second place. Ted is most noted for his speed in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 United Kingdom Foot-and-mouth Outbreak
The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism. This epizootic saw 2,000 cases of the disease in farms across most of the British countryside. Over 6 million cows and sheep were killed in an eventually successful attempt to halt the disease. Cumbria was the worst affected area of the country, with 893 cases. With the intention of controlling the spread of the disease, public rights of way across land were closed by order. This damaged the popularity of the Lake District as a tourist destination and led to the cancellation of that year's Cheltenham Festival, as well as the British Rally Championship for the 2001 season and delaying that year's general election by a month. Crufts, the dog-based festival had to be postponed by 2 months from March to May 2001. By the time that the disease was halted in October 2001, the crisis was estimated to have cost the United Kingdom £8bn. Background Britain's l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Jebb
Robert Jebb (born 28 February 1975 in Bingley) is an English fell runner Fell running, also sometimes known as hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off-road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty. The name arises from the origins of the English sport o ..., skyrunner, and cyclo-cross rider. He has won the annual Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross in the Yorkshire Dales a record twelve times since 2000,"Results and Roll of Honour" 3 Peaks Cyclo-cross official website is a four-time-winner of the Three Peaks Race in the same region and broke Catalan people, Catalan dominance in the Buff Skyrunner World Series when he became champion in 2005. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Bland
Gavin Bland (born 21 November 1971) is a British fell runner who was a British and English champion and represented his country at the World Mountain Running Trophy. Biography Gavin Bland was born in 1971 in Penrith, Cumbria, and grew up on his family's farm in Borrowdale. The prominent fell runner Billy Bland is his uncle, and several other members of his family were active in the sport. He attended Keswick School, leaving aged sixteen to work on the family farm. Bland was successful in races as a youth. His first senior race was in 1989. Perhaps the most notable performance in the early part of his running career was a second place in the junior race at the World Mountain Running Trophy in 1990. He also represented England in senior races at the World Mountain Running Trophy in 1991 and 1992. In 1991, Bland won the English Fell Running Championships and was second to Keith Anderson in the British Championships. In 1999, he won both the British and English Championships. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverley Redfern
Beverley Redfern (born c.1956 in Mtarfa, Malta) is a British mountain runner who won the 1990 World Mountain Running Championships. She also won the Ben Nevis Race in 1989, the Coniston Fell Race in 1993, and Sierre-Zinal The Sierre-Zinal race is an annual mountain running race that takes place in the Swiss canton of Valais each August. It is also known as the race of five 4000ers ("La course des cinq 4000"), as five peaks over four thousand meters are visible alon ..., also in 1993. Redfern still holds the women's course record for the Ben Lomond Hill Race which she set in 1990. References Living people British female mountain runners British fell runners People from Mtarfa Year of birth missing (living people) World Mountain Running Championships winners {{UK-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Anderson (runner)
Keith Anderson (born 10 August 1957) is a male British former runner who was the national fell running champion and competed in the marathon at the Commonwealth Games. Athletics career Anderson did not take up running until he was thirty, at which time he was overweight and had an unhealthy lifestyle. He made rapid progress and in 1989 won the Edale Skyline, Sedbergh Hills and Three Shires fell races. Also that year, he won the Ben Nevis Race, noting that losing three stones in weight had contributed greatly to his victory. In 1991, Anderson won the British Fell Running Championships. He is popularly considered one of the best descenders in the history of the sport and an investigation of downhill running speeds found his sustained descent rate of 1.365 m/s in the 1990 Pen y Fan Race, when he descended 580m vertically in 7:05, to be the fastest recorded in any race for which relevant information was available. He made more use of science and technology in his running th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Rowell
Sarah Louise Rowell (born 19 November 1962) is a British former long-distance runner. Born in Hostert, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, she ran 2:39:11 at the age of 20 at the 1983 London Marathon. Later that year she won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 1983 Universiade in Edmonton. At the 1984 London marathon she improved her best to 2:31:28 to qualify for the British team for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. In the inaugural women's Olympic marathon, she finished 14th. She broke the British record when running her personal best for the marathon with 2:28:06, when finishing second behind Ingrid Kristiansen at the 1985 London Marathon. Later in her running career, Rowell was a prominent fell runner, winning the Three Peaks Race four times as well as Wasdale, Borrowdale and Ben Nevis. She finished second in the 1992 World Mountain Running Trophy and won both the British and English Fell Running Championships The first English Fell Running Championships were held in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Haworth
Pauline Stuart ( Cushnie; born 1 August 1956) is a former pioneer female fell runner, being the first woman to win many of the classic fell races in the late 1970s and early 1980s, some as soon as they allowed women to enter. Early life Stuart was born in Northampton but raised in Southport. She left school at eighteen and began training as a nurse, but moved on to go to work for the Youth Hostels Association (YHA). She had been inspired by seeing Joss Naylor out running on the fells when she worked at the YHA at Wasdale. Running career In 1979 a female Fell Runner of the Year contest was instigated, and Pauline was the winner of the second title in 1980. Stuart then had a couple of years of injuries and operations, including issues with a bunion and a heel spur. She returned in 1984 for another attempt at the British Fell Championships (as it was now called), managing to win it that year and again in 1985, giving her three titles in total. In 1984 she won ten out of ten of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bland (runner)
Billy Bland (born 1947) is a British former long-distance runner. He was one of the most prominent fell runners from the mid-1970s until the late 1980s, and is arguably the best long-distance fell runner in the history of the sport. Biography Bland was born in 1947 in Borrowdale in the Lake District. His father Joe Bland was a guides racer and several other members of Billy's family also became fell runners, including his brothers Stuart and David. Bland took part in professional guides races early in his career and was reinstated as an amateur around the time of the inaugural Borrowdale Fell Race in 1974. By 1976 he had improved enough to finish eighth in the British Championships. This was followed by further progression until 1980 when he became the British Champion. Bland is a former holder of the record for the fell running challenge the Bob Graham Round which involves a circuit of forty-two Lake District peaks, covering around sixty-six miles. He accomplished this in a tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
