Simon Booth (runner)

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Simon Booth (born 10 May 1968[https://www.peteblandsports.co.uk/sponsored-athletes/simon-booth Pete Bland Sports: Simon Booth.]) is an English runner who was twice the British fell running champion and who has represented his country at the World Mountain Running Trophy.

As a youngster, Booth’s preferred sports were rugby and football. However, an early indication of his running ability was his performance at the Cumbria Marathon from Cockermouth in 1982 when he was the first junior to finish at the age of fourteen and beat his father Bill Booth. Injuries ended Simon’s focus on rugby and after finishing second in the Borrowdale Fell Race in 1989, his attention turned to fell running.[https://www.peteblandsports.co.uk/sponsored-athletes/simon-booth Pete Bland Sports: Simon Booth]; [https://www.dropbox.com/s/hkh8fm84zqn23l1/Pictorial%20History%20of%20Keswick%20AC.ppt?dl=0 Pictorial History of Keswick AC.]

Booth won the British Fell Running Championships in 2002 and 2005.Steve Chilton, It's a Hill, Get Over It (Dingwall, 2013), 329-30. He has performed especially well in the longer races and his wins include Wasdale, the Ennerdale Horseshoe, Great Lakes, Duddon Valley, Sedbergh Hills, the Anniversary Waltz, Buttermere Sailbeck, Langdale, the Three Peaks and Skiddaw.[http://fellrunner.org.uk/fellrunner/2001_June.pdf Graham Breeze, “Classic Fell Races Part 1: Il Campionissimo”, The Fellrunner Magazine, Jun 2001, 8-11]; [http://fellrunner.org.uk/fellrunner/2003_February.pdf Graham Breeze, “Equi ad Circos (Classic Fell Races Part 3)”, The Fellrunner Magazine, Feb 2003, 24-26]; [http://www.anniversarywaltz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/8th_aw_r.htm Anniversary Waltz 2004 Results]; [http://www.amblesideac.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Langdale_2009_results.htm Ambleside AC: Langdale 2009 Results]; [https://fellrace.org.uk/races/buttermeresailbeck/ Buttermere Sailbeck]; [https://fellrace.org.uk/races/Greatlakes Great Lakes Run]; [http://www.cwherald.com/a/archive/father-and-son-on-top-of-the-world.243173.html “Father and Son on Top of the World …”, Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, 11 Jul 1998.]

He had a particularly notable sequence of results in the Borrowdale Fell Race which he won twelve times between 1995 and 2010.[https://get.google.com/albumarchive/102477338914660846698/album/AF1QipMqHa-W1MMrk9cR_xdKMV5UCXVGHmgFNKV24aFv/AF1QipPm5X6eIhMeE4qbHMTijGeKJlENFFV1Jr2aZMfq Borrowdale Fell Race Winners]; [http://www.lakelandclassicstrophy.org.uk/results-races/ Lakeland Classics Trophy: Race Results.]

Internationally, Booth competed in the Mount Kinabalu Climbathon, finishing second in the 1999 race, just two seconds behind Ian Holmes.[http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12358876.Sport_Digest/ "Sport Digest", Herald Scotland, 27 Sep 1999]; [http://www.sabah.net.my/pinolobu/mkicrmen99.txt Mt. Kinabalu International Climbathon 1999 Results.] In 2000, 2001 and 2002, he was the winner of La 6000D at La Plagne in France[https://www.la6000d.com/en/history/results-1990-2018.html La 6000D: Results from 1990 to 2018.] and he also won the Avalanche Peak Challenge in New Zealand in 2001.[https://sumnerrunningclub.org.nz/2012/02/24/avalanche-peak-2012/ Sumner Running Club: Avalanche Peak 2012.]

He represented England at the World Mountain Running Trophy in Alaska in 2003[http://www.wmra.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=565&Itemid=4&year=2003&discode=3101&cat=i WMRA: World Mountain Running Trophy 2003.] and in 2005, he placed second in the Skyrunner World Series.[https://fellrunner.org.uk/fellrunner/2007_Summer.pdf Graham Breeze, "Simon Booth: A Profile", The Fellrunner, Summer 2007, 16-18.]

In 2015, Booth devised the “No Cure, Always Hope, Ultra Run” from the Newlands Valley based on the 10in10 challenge routes which were set up to raise money for research on multiple sclerosis, a disease with which Booth’s brother Duncan was diagnosed in 2010.[http://www.10in10.org.uk/event-information/no-cure-always-hope-ultra-run/ 10in10: No Cure, Always Hope, Ultra Run]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmLj5IzenT0 Mathew Emery on YouTube: The Booth Brothers.]