Ron Hill died the other day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/57220289Hill represented Britain in the marathon at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and at Munich in 1972.
In 1970 he became the first Briton to win the Boston Marathon, breaking the course record, and won Commonwealth gold the same year in a time of two hours nine minutes 28 seconds.
Hill also ran at least one mile every single day for 52 years and 39 days before ending his streak aged 78.
Was the first person to use synthetic fabrics in sportswear following a career as a textile chemist, leading him to set up Ron Hill Sports in September 1970
A Legend of British athletics.
I saw him a couple of times at running events - once at Manchester 10k and once at Aintree 10k. Both times he was mobbed with wellwishers - not turning any of them away. I managed to get aphoto with him at the aintree event. Really nice guy.
