The Running Hard Blog Tour: author Q&A
The Running Hard Blog Tour - feel free to check out the other posts shown above I recently met Steve Chilton at one of his book talks (at the Snowdon International Race this year), and fell into conversation with him as we were staying at the same hotel. This has developed into a (mostly social media) friendship since then. So, recently I got a chance to have a chat with him about his own running and also writing the book, Running Hard: the story of a rivalry . Before I could ask him any questions though he threw a few at me, which I enjoyed answering: Cal, when did you start fell running and who encouraged you to give the sport a go? I did some fell races when I was very young, I have results from Woodentops quarry runs from 1997 & 1998, but, I have a results sheet from Shooters fell race in 1995, so I was either 4 or 5! I then basically played football 6 to 7 days a week along with a bit of rugby union until I was about 24. My fell running return, I suppose, was t