In reply to LeeWood:
> Very inspiring. Fell-running is so much more of an adventure than road running and this article is a great boost for it.
> Except for: 'Billy Bland once told me 1st is 1st, second is nowhere.'
For Colin it was though. He's not given enough recognition about how great he was, well and is. So many are flash in the pans. Colin is now in his 50's and still winning races. He never really sought the fame, very much his performances did the talking..
http://www.scottishhillracing.co.uk/RunnerDetails.aspx?RunnerID=R2982
When you look at the great fell/mountain running records, we think of the Ben, Snowdon, and CD's times were just off Kenny Stuarts. But its his longevity which puts him up there as an all time fell running legend. He was also an excellent actual runner and dominated XC too.
In this is the clip CD tarverses Crob Goch.. I thought on his actual record breaking run he went to the summit and back to the bwlch so missed the full traverse and descent of the North Ridge.. The filming for this was done just after his successful run so they may have used artistic license..
He also had some stamina.. he ran the Paddy Buckley in 23 hours after England beat Cameroon in the 90 world cup.. drove to Capel, dropped off some sandwiches, and ran it on his own. I actual think it put people off because there was a view that 'well if CD only just did it'.. in reality, prepared and with pacers he'd have ran 15 hours easy.
But he's also done the Ramsay and Meirionydd rounds.. (just over 24 I think after getting lost).. and probably many more He actually favoured annual ultra distance runs as benefit to training, just the odd huge over-distance training run.