Steve Chilton

Author 'Its a Hill, Get Over It', 'The Round’, ‘Running Hard', ‘All or Nothing at all', ‘Voices from the hills’, and 'Three Peaks Race'. UKA coach. OSM mapper.

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Link to interview at expressfm added to my blog: https://t.co/cmnkGrgaby Interview covers my own running and why I wrote the book on the history of the Three Peaks Race @3PeaksRaceInov8

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Cold but sunny day for Green Opening Day at the club.

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On this Bank Holiday I am pleased to say that I have just finished walking ALL roads in Bishop Waltham and recording addresses for the whole town. As an aside the last but one address recorded was Bank Cottage (one of the several former banks in BW). @openstreetmap

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Its World Book Day. Just sayin. #WorldBookDay2026

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Really enjoyed being on the excellent Studmarks podcast (on Bob Graham Round with Scoffer and Mark Roberts). Link to podcast: https://t.co/kWMK42zcKY
For a bit more info about it, check my blog post (also with link to it): https://t.co/9kaYwyOixM #bobgrahamround

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Signed copies of all my books are available directly from me: https://t.co/FmOR1eCo3O

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Great podcast with Will Barton. He talks about his year, shoes, his varied racing and his study of training of some fell greats (Billy, Kenny, JohnW) - some of which he has encompassed. I have written a lot on this topic and chatted it with him a while ago https://t.co/4fxYXNK1bg

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Just read James Cheshire's brilliant book 'The Library of Lost Maps'. He puts case well for not disbanding the UCL Map Library collection. Highly recommended read. What he doesn't say is whether there is a plan/chance of the map library remaining in place. Any insights? @bcsmaps

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@kennethfield Link to map from the webpage not working. Please check, so we can view detail

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@kennethfield Am loving these 'dailies'. A bold venture. And in particular that you include the full prompts in your blog notes. Are they all just prompt-generated, or is there any post-production or 'design/edits'?

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Time to review the blog year for '25. I did fewer blog posts, as the blog seems to be becoming less used by me (and less viewed by others: 20% less views). Referrals came mostly from Search Engines and Facebook, with Twitter/X being virtually moribund now. https://t.co/m5478HVlF2

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Using the excellent Every Door app to add addresses to @openstreetmap data in Bishops Waltham

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Nov 2024 (!) issue of the Cartographic Journal just arrived. A strong plus is the excellent quality of the papers in this 'special issue' on Ethics in Cartography. Downside though: no reviews (again). Footnote: books by Cheshire, Brotton and the Map Men have all come out recently

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A list - the six best books I read in 2025: https://t.co/oIchsXEpcB #goodreadsyearinbooks

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In the January 2026 BBC Countryfile magazine there is an article on fell running, by Sam Pyrah, to which I contributed a couple of very short pieces. https://t.co/eLuaafb09B

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#365daymapchallenge

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@AJRunningCoach We all differ. But time gaps from me are slower by 1-35, 3-42, 1-46 and 12-43 respectively. I was relatively better the longer it went, so ran 2-34-53 mara. That suggests you might run mara way better, but then you just might be better shorter!

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Stretching before the @ItchenSpitfires session at the Southampton Theatre of Doom last night

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A longish read. Blog post of a chat I had with Gavin Bland - mostly about his experience of winning Langdale Horseshoe 4 times (once aged 18), but also some other memories. Am researching a piece for Fellrunner mag. https://t.co/A52jS7viv5