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Joseph Naylor MBE (10 February 1936 – 28 June 2024) was an English fell runner who set many long-distance records, and a sheep farmer, living in the Lake District. He became known as the "King of the Fells" [1] or simply the "Iron Man". [2] [3] Joss Naylor providing water to fell runners - Ennerdale Horseshoe Fell Race June 2010
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 on the fells of northern Britain, especially those in the Lake District .
Before the Bob Graham Round, many shorter rounds of the Lakeland fells were developed. These are chronicled in the Bob Graham Club's Story of the Bob Graham Round, [2] in the fell-walking section of M. J. B. Baddeley's Lakeland guidebook, [3] and most recently in Chapter 15 of Steve Chilton's It's a Hill, Get Over It: Fell Running's History and Characters.
Ryan Hill (born January 31, 1990) is an American long-distance runner.Hill was a silver medalist in the 3000 metres at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships.He represented the United States at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 52nd place, 2013 World Championships in Athletics and the 2015 World Championships in Athletics, where he ran the 5000 meters at ...
Jim Hill (born July 1, 1961) is an American former distance runner who competed over distances from the 1500 metres to the 10,000 metres.He represented the United States at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics in the 5000 metres, where he finished 16th overall, [1] and at the 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in the junior men's race where he finished 12th individually and ...
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Wild was born on 8 September 1984 in Thurso. [1] [2] He gained an affinity with the outdoors through his parents Roger Wild, a mountain guide, and Fiona (née Hinde), an accomplished hill runner who won the Three Peaks Race in 1981 and the Carnethy 5 in 1981 and 1982.
Angela Mudge (born 8 July 1970) is a Scottish champion hill runner and skyrunner.Despite being born with birth defects in both legs, and finding track athletics not to her liking, she discovered her sport while a postgraduate student in Scotland in the mid-1990s, and developed rapidly.