I'll get mine

I've been doing some research and it's surprising just how misinformation becomes "fact" despite readily available evidence to the contrary.

With the concept of fell race records, these are only updated when they get broken so the assumption is that "no-one" has got near the record since they were set. If the fastest three or five winning times were recorded you'd see that this isn't the case.

Oh, within 1/2 hr of Billy Bland's BGR record? None as Baggins has rightly pointed out - the next fastest are Stuart Bland and Mark Hartell over an hour slower (comparative term!). Billy knocked nearly 4hrs off the record Imagine if someone reduced the current marathon record to 1hr 38mins? It was as if everyone else had just been playing at it.