James Appleton – Trail / Fell Runner

James has been running literally all his life – from cross-country through school and university, and then onto obstacle course racing, and now having moved to Keswick in the Lake District, fell running and longer ultras.

Competitive achievements include four wins at the legendary Tough Guy race, several top-10 finishes in OCR world-championships in individual events, and two world-champion titles as one of the three-man GBR team in the relay event. James is now hoping to focus more on pure trail and fell running events, and try and convert some of the success from OCR into these.

Alongside his running, James is also an award-winning travel, landscape and adventure photographer, who is best known for his dramatic close-up photographs of the 2010 Eyjafjalljokull eruption in Iceland. It certainly helps his strength and endurance when long runs in the fells are accompanied by a pack full of camera gear, and the Lakes provide an amazing backdrop in many of James’ recent images.

• Mountain Fuel Results 27/11/18
  More Team Mountain Fuel athletes in action over the weekend, with 3 of our athletes in Saturday relay action…   Kirsty Hall & Nichola Jackson (see below) ran in the Lee Mill Relays, 1st ...
• Successful Weekend for Team Mountain Fuel
  Well done everyone who was racing last weekend!   Katie Kaars Sijpesteijn made the most of the weather running the Kong Adventure Keswick 2 Riggs course as a warm up and then racing it ...
• Great weekend for Mountain Fuelled Athletes
  Another fantastic weekend! Here’s what a few of the team got up to; Julie Briscoe 1st & Angela Joiner-Handy 3rd at Jane Tomlinson 10km in York Llewellyn Holmes 2nd at Always Ain High ...
• Magnificent weekend for Team Mountain Fuel at the Hodgson Brothers Mountain Relay
  Amazing weekend for TeamMountainFuel James Appleton & Mark Lamb who were part of the winning Keswick AC team at the Hodgson Brothers Mountain Relay, the teams first win since 1990. This was an incredible ...
• Team Mountain Fuels historic Billy Bland Challenge race sees six records smashed: Race Report
  On Sunday 25th June at 5am, Team Mountain Fuel made fell running history with the first competitive head-to-head race involving the Billy Bland Challenge and with that six records. The ...