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How on earth do these super brits do it? I'm sure there are plenty to add too...

Kenton Cool
11 times on the top of the world, 'the triple' - 3 times without returning to BC, plus all the huge first ascents.

Ranulph Fiennes
The trans globe first without air transport, NW passage in an open top boat, the stuff in both the poles, heart attacks on Everest, the Eiger NF with Richmond sausages for fingers and the crème de la crem - 7 marathons in 7 days in 7 continents!

On the subject of marathons...
Eddie Izzard
43 marathons in 51 days. 6 days a week for 7 weeks. Training before hand? "yea, I stretched a bit"

John Merrill
They call him a 'marathon walker' now but when I was buying his books and ticking his Peak challenge routes he was just a long distance walker. He was ovioulsy just warming up.
The first to claim the entire Britsh coastline continuously. 6,824 miles with heavy 70/80's gear too. Firsts and busted records world wide since.

Joss Nailer
The bionic man or just Iron Joss?
Welsh 3000's in 4h 46m holding the record for 10+ years <IIRC>
Pennine way - 3 days
Ran the wainwrights in 7 days
60 fells on 60th bday
70 fells on his 70th bday
Gulp! - he's nearly 80 now.....

Finley Wild, Eric Beard, Andy Hyslop & Es Tresidder
Cuillin Traverse Records. Present record holder named first as it should be, 4hrs 9 min to 3hrs 14 min in the space of 40 odd years. Seriously dudes, it took me 90 mins to find an abb station on the tops of vaddy...

UKC guides
Own up then! How many Bens? how many Inn Pinns over the years??

All of them completely mad for it and a real super human level of endurance and fitness. Who can we add to the list??

In reply to wilkie14c:

Maurice Wilson ? One of my British superheroes

In reply to Bjartur i Sumarhus:

thought this was going to about Alf Tupper or Wilson the wonder

In reply to wilkie14c:

If you can expand to go beyond Britain look up Annette Fredskov.
She ran a marathon each day for a year.

In reply to wilkie14c:

banana man (eric) was british?

In reply to wilkie14c:

Tommy Godwin. Still has the most miles cycled in a year.
75,065 miles.

In reply to wilkie14c:

Cuillin record 2.59...

In reply to wilkie14c:

Mo?

In reply to Mikkel:

And still the only woman named on the thread!
Whatever will tlm make of it

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Maurice Wilson allegedly liked to wear women's clothes.

In reply to wilkie14c:

Ron Hill.

In reply to ow arm:


And Super Gran (although maybe only shown in Scotland)

In reply to ow arm:

Brown Bottle http://www.arlnow.com/wp-content/forum-image-uploads/theakston/brownbottle....

In reply to wilkie14c:

Wally Herbert.

In reply to wilkie14c:

Si Homfray

Having what he describes as a bit of a mid-life crisis after being badly injured in a motorbike crash, decided to run to (and, if possible, up) Everest. Somewhere in Turkey at the moment:

http://www.roadofmanycolours.com
https://www.facebook.com/roadofmanysmiles

In reply to Mr Trebus:


Why would Supergran have been shown only in Scotland? It was a Tyne Tees production and was accordingly filmed around Tyneside. I assumed it was shown all over the UK although you do have a point about ITV being quite regional.

In reply to dissonance:



I've just ordered a new calculator. I don't believe this one.

In reply to wilkie14c:

Well Kenton Cool is fitter and more talented than average but hardly a superhero for perpetuating the circus that is Everest. I know he's doing his job but that's hardly heroic material.

In reply to deepsoup:

Good call that man. He deserves a lot more support!
Keep going Si...

In reply to wilkie14c:

But what have they done on grit?

In reply to wilkie14c:

Think you'll find it was Joss Naylor (even though the guy is 'Hard as Nails')

In reply to Lord of Starkness:

Yes, perhaps that's where the confusion set in

In reply to Al Evans:

Most are made of true grit

In reply to wilkie14c:

Check out Don Ritchies ultra records

In reply to mick t:
Just got the ultarunning history page up cheers.

One I forgot in the original post:

Ron Fawcett
100 Extremes in a day.
No soft touches either, a smattering of E4/5s in the tick list. All solo and he counted the descents too as he down climbed some of the easier extremes just to get down! Full account was in 'High' (or 'On the edge) where I first read it but reproduced in his Fawcett on rock book and his autobiography. Big Ron. Indeed.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/set.php?id=548

In reply to wilkie14c:

Paula Radcliffe
Billy Bland
Steve Redgrave

In reply to wilkie14c:
Eddie Izzard Born 7 February 1962 (age 52) Yemen
But is British.

In reply to wilkie14c:

Beryl Burton great british cyclyst from ye olden days

In reply to wilkie14c:
Helen Diamantides, won a number of 100 miler ultras. 19 hour BG round (current record is 18 hours for women). Won the Dragons Back race (225 miles), 38 hours 38 minutes and the pair who came second were well over 1 hour behind. Also ran from EBC to Kathmandu in 3 days 10 hours, beating a bunch of Sherpas (which wasn't broken till last year by Lizzy Hawker (who is also pretty awesome)).

In reply to wilkie14c:

Chrissie wellington, multiple world champ iron man triathlon and untouchable up to the point she retired.

In reply to wilkie14c:


What about me?

*once TALKED to Joe Brown [for 2 minutes, in his shop]

*once watched TV for 14 hours non-stop

*failed on a HS just after leading an Extreme route

*been to North Wales countless times

*DONE CORDON BLEU [do it yourself before mocking that]

*trans globe [in a plane]

*Snowdon horseshoe in 5 hours without sherpas

In reply to wilkie14c:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons

Diana at 3? Fine bit of totty, put it about a bit, but 3?

In reply to stroppygob:

What a daft list that is. Quite absurd that Brunel should be above Shakespeare and Newton. John Lennon far too high, and arguably Cromwell shouldn't be there at all (genocide and regicide who contributed little.) Dickens should certainly be in the top 10, and perhaps George Stephenson. Then there are the quiet heroes like James Watt, Frank Whittle and R.J. Mitchell. On the movie front, Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean should be in top 100.

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

De gustibus non est disputandum.

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

De gustibus non est disputandum.