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Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous terrain, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. [1] In this it differs from fell running ; also its courses are more clearly marked and avoid dangerous sections. [ 2 ]
For World Athletics purposes, mountain running takes place on terrain that is mainly off-road, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. Courses involve considerable amounts of ascent (for mainly uphill races), or both ascent and descent (for up and down races with the start and finish at similar heights).
A summit book or summit register is a record of visitors to the summit of a mountain. It is usually enclosed in a weatherproof, animalproof metal canister. Some books are maintained in an informal manner by an individual or small group, while others are maintained by a club.
The Pikes Peak Ascent race has twice incorporated the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge competition, first in 2006 then again in 2010. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The 2020 edition of the ascent was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic , with all registrants given the option of either transferring their entry to 2021, [ a ] obtaining a partial ...
Jim Fixx was the author of the 1977 best-seller The Complete Book of Running, which sold over one million copies. Fixx is credited with popularizing the sport of running and contributing to the 1970s running boom through regular media appearances that touted the health benefits of exercise.
He is the first Black American to not only make the Team USA World Mountain Running Team, but also the first Black American to win the USA National Mountain Running Championships and the World Mountain Running Championships. Gray was voted the greatest male mountain runner of all time by a poll conducted by the World Mountain Running ...
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.
Olympus Lost Trail running track. In September there is a shorter extreme run that has to be done within 15 hours. Start in Lakko (Enipeas river, Litochoro), altitude 280 m; 9 km to Monastiri, altitude 810 m; 7.6 km to Deli, altitude 850 m; 7.9 km to Livadaki, altitude 2100 m; 7.7 km to Prionia, altitude 1100 m; 2,3 km to Goumarostali, altitude ...