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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.
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 .
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".
Founded in 1958, the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) is the oldest and largest distance running organization in the United States with over 1,500 running club and event members representing 200,000 individual runners active in their running communities.
The World Runners Association (WRA) was established on October 1, 2014 and is a not-for-profit organization. Jesper Kenn Olsen and Tom Denniss created the World Runners Club, a subsidiary organisation under the umbrella of the World Runners Association.
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In April 2017, she ran the Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge in 11:02, a new women's record. [12] Spinks has won the Fellsman four times [13] and in 2013 she won the Borrowdale Fell Race. [14] Spinks was an entrant in the 2019 and 2023 edition of the Barkley Marathons. [15] [16] She is sponsored by RaceKit and Inov-8. [3] [5]
The Florida Lecture Series at Florida Southern College in Lakeland opens Thursday with the author of a book about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,