The Legend Ron Hill Has Stopped His Streak

"This guy wouldn't have been half the runner without this level of dedication. This is your ultimate blue collar runner."

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Ron Hill in essence actually held the World Record for the marathon at one point. Derek Clayton's 2:09:36 at Fukuoka in 1967 is slower that Hill's 2:09:28 in 1970 at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Clayton's 2:08:33 at Antwerp in 1969 could not be substantiated due to lack of accurate distance measuring of the course. Not until Salazar in 1981 does someone run faster but then it turns out to be 160 meters short years later. So really Gerard Nijboer's 2:09:01 was the record set in 1980 at Amsterdam. So for 10 years Hill was the record holder!

Also it was a crime that he was not selected to carry the Olympic Torch in 2012 in the UK for even a short distance - was overlooked apparently by the idiots! After having the 'ultimate running steak' that he's been religiously keeping track of. I wear his running gear all the time - He's the 'ULTIMATE RUNNER' in my book! Brilliant Bloke!!!!! CHEERS MATE!

sporting life wrote:

Boston37 wrote:http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/01/30/ron-hill-ran-every-day-for-years-until-sunday/jsylCpdsv5jtULT1KakQSL/story.html

Looked like a hippie as he floated down Beacon St in 1970. What a story.

Imagine how long it took him to cut out all those holes in that shirt. Talk about persistent, no wonder he had such a long running streak.

Rupp did a good holey impersonation of Hill at Rio.

Ron Hill 2:09 marathoner when 2:09 was the shit. Dude is a beast. 52 years with out a rest day, Have a good day off Mr. Hill

Amazing!!! wrote:

Ron Hill in essence actually held the World Record for the marathon at one point. Derek Clayton's 2:09:36 at Fukuoka in 1967 is slower that Hill's 2:09:28 in 1970 at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Clayton's 2:08:33 at Antwerp in 1969 could not be substantiated due to lack of accurate distance measuring of the course.

WTF are you on about?

I posted that I don't believe he's been running every day. It seems that such a statement isn't tolerated here.

I've heard and seen enough runners of all ages claim heroic, but undocumented, efforts. When they eventually invest in a Garmin, the proof is out, they're nowhere near their bragging levels even now. And I certainly don't believe they're more honest about their undocumented past.

Sorry Ron, you were definitely a great runner, but I don't believe a second that you've run every day for 52 years. That shop you've been running doesn't make it more likely either.

WTF are you on about? wrote:

Amazing!!! wrote:

Ron Hill in essence actually held the World Record for the marathon at one point. Derek Clayton's 2:09:36 at Fukuoka in 1967 is slower that Hill's 2:09:28 in 1970 at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Clayton's 2:08:33 at Antwerp in 1969 could not be substantiated due to lack of accurate distance measuring of the course.

WTF are you on about?

The alternative world record progression pushed by ARRS. Not coincidently, the beneficiaries are most commonly British athletes. See Men's world record progression in the link below.

So ARRS have arbitrarily set themselves up as the ultimate authority?

If I remember rightly (and I can't be bothered researching it) when some people started to question it in later years, especially after Salazar's short NY, part of the course had been built on/roads changed so it wasn't possible to measure the course, which is when all the "short course" stuff started. At the time Clayton said it doesn't matter cos pretty soon all times are going to get completely annihilated anyway. He was right.

In Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston in 1970, Eamon O'Reilly finished 2nd in 2:11:12, which at that time was the American record (when Boston was still in the running for American bests).

I read the article. If he really "ran" a mile on the last day of the streak in over sixteen minutes, then he should have stopped *long* before. Cripes, a couple weeks back I *walked* 26 miles at a considerably faster pace--and I'm no racewalker. (He's not that much older than I am, either.)

2:09 is still a GREAT time. You are living in a fantasy world if you believe all the marathon times of 2:05 and below.

HRE wrote:

Rebeccs wrote:

My mom is faster over 10k

And evidently no slouch at raising idiots either.

DAMNNN

BURN

His week long race series The Tour if Tamesude was superb. Finished one place ahead of him in the xc although he was giving away nearly 30 years. His son Graham finished one place ahead of me! My dad had raced Ron Hill as well although behind him of course. Ron even raced in my small home town when I was a kid.

Met him loads of times as did all the runners who lived in the North West area He ran second claim for my club and gave talks in the pub. I dud have his signed book - the Bible of long distance running but it fell apart I read it so many times.

The title says it all in how to succeed at running:

The Long Hard Road.

You need a Garmin to know if you've gone out to run? Anyway, let's hope Ron doesn't read this board. He'll go home devastated if he reads that you don't believe he ran everyday for 52 years.

Ya pissed on all of 'em Ronnie. Alf Tupper would be proud of ya.

Memory Man wrote:

So ARRS have arbitrarily set themselves up as the ultimate authority?

If I remember rightly (and I can't be bothered researching it) when some people started to question it in later years, especially after Salazar's short NY, part of the course had been built on/roads changed so it wasn't possible to measure the course, which is when all the "short course" stuff started. At the time Clayton said it doesn't matter cos pretty soon all times are going to get completely annihilated anyway. He was right.

Times were certainly not annihilated ":pretty soon". It was years before guys routinely ran faster than Clayton's time.

HRE wrote:

You need a Garmin to know if you've gone out to run? Anyway, let's hope Ron doesn't read this board. He'll go home devastated if he reads that you don't believe he ran everyday for 52 years.

No, You need a garmin so WE know.

The thing most people don't realize or understand about streak runners is that there are no set rules for how much you have to run every day. Just because someone does ten miles everyday, the runner doing one to two miles a day is still legitimate. Obviously it is more impressive if someone maintains a double digit amount of miles every day but that is not the pre requisite.

It is sad people on this message board are so cruel, they have no idea what kind of talent and person Ron Hill is.

He is a running legend. One of my inspirations as a kid. I was thrilled to meet him at the London Marathon a couple of years ago.

The Clayton marathon WR in Antwerp was long surrounded by questions about the course. So it's not at all far-fetched to think that Ron Hill should have been the marathon WR holder for 10 years, something that would have made a big difference to his life and his profile beyond hard-core running fans. He also was 17 seconds behind a WR marathon run by Basil Heatley in the 1964 Polytechnic Marathon in London, a race where he had been sent off course while in the lead. An impressive but little known performance was his 1:36 for 20 miles in 1968.

He was also a pioneer in training and running equipment, building on his PhD in textiles chemistry.

To get through his 2-volume autobiography you need to be approaching his level of OCD. But I loved it.

Hobble walkers are not runners wrote:

HRE wrote:

You need a Garmin to know if you've gone out to run? Anyway, let's hope Ron doesn't read this board. He'll go home devastated if he reads that you don't believe he ran everyday for 52 years.

No, You need a garmin so WE know.

And why would anyone care what you know?