76 year old Ron Hill from England has competed in no fewer than three Olympic Games and in his long career has also set several world records, including a 2:09:28 time at the 1970 Commonwealth Games marathon in Edinburgh.
He is also famous for having the longest running streak in the world having run every day for 50 years. Having started on the 20th of December 1964, his run at the Manchester Heathon Park parkrun on Saturday the 20th of December 2014 was the 50th anniversary. At a rough calculation and including leap years, that's over 18,260 days!
He still maintains a daily record of all his runs and has now clocked up 160,000 miles which is equivalent to running around the world six times.
Additional info...
1) BBC News
2) Athletics Weekly
3) Three runners from Cork travel to England for Ron Hill's 75th birthday
4) Interview with Ron Hill from 2012
5) Article in the Irish Examiner by John Walshe...Sat 20th Dec
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