20 Facts About Angela Mudge

Angela Mudge has won the Scottish Hill Running Championships three times, the British Fell Running Championships five times, and holds the women's record on more than thirteen courses in Scotland alone.

Angela Mudge was named on a list of "100 things we still love about sport" by The Observer newspaper in June 2008.

Angela Mudge has commented that "[w]e got a bit squashed in the womb", and for the first few years of their lives both girls were required to have their legs in braces and plaster to rectify this.

Angela Mudge came late to hill running by comparison with more mainstream athletics competitors, not recording results until her mid-twenties, but developed quickly thereafter.

Angela Mudge showed equally rapid development on the international stage, placing 46th in the 11th World Mountain Running Trophy when it was held in Scotland in 1995, five years prior to winning the event outright in 2000.

Angela Mudge continued her international success in 1999, the year she broke the course record for the prestigious 4,100 metres Mount Kinabalu Climbathon in Sabah, Malaysia, as she won the race and the US$2,500 prize.

Angela Mudge triumphed in similar record-breaking style in the 2001 Cinq 4,000s in Sierre-Zinal, Switzerland, becoming the first woman to achieve a sub-three-hour time on the 31 kilometres course.

Angela Mudge won the women's World Mountain Running Trophy in Bergen, Germany against expectations in 2000; as with all even-numbered years, the Trophy race followed the international style, which typically only involves an ascent.

Angela Mudge is more experienced in British fell-running, which includes running up and down hills, but found success despite being unable to exploit her greater descending experience.

Angela Mudge herself described the WMRT win as "the pinnacle of my career" in a June 2008 interview.

Angela Mudge finished second behind New Zealand's Melissa Moon in the 2003 World Mountain Running Trophy, held in Girdwood, Alaska.

Angela Mudge won the 2003 Pikes Peak Marathon, which she only entered as a warm up for the Alaska race.

Angela Mudge missed much of the 2005 season, first recuperating from an operation to rehabilitate a damaged knee which left her on crutches, and then succumbing to a bout of plantar fasciitis between May and July.

Angela Mudge's prizes included a large raclette cheese and a CHF50 voucher for a local florist.

For 2006 Angela Mudge became a member of the Team SaabSalomon Adventure Running Team, and competed in the Buff Skyrunner World Series, a grand prix of eight high altitude endurance races around the globe.

Angela Mudge did not participate in the opening race in Hidalgo, Mexico, but was victorious in four successive subsequent rounds in Zegama, Spain, Valposchiavo, Switzerland, Nagano, Japan, and Canazei, the Dolomites, Italy, breaking the course record on each occasion.

Angela Mudge regained her Scottish Hill Running Championship title in 2006, winning all four of the events she entered.

Angela Mudge finished eighth overall, the first woman and the second westerner out of 80 participants, setting a course record of 5h 3m, thirteen minutes ahead of the previous mark.

Angela Mudge was an occasional competitor in the 2008 series, winning in Valposchiavo, Switzerland, and her home event in Fort William, Scotland.

Angela Mudge finished second in the other two races she entered, the WMRA Grand Prix in Saillon-Ovronaz, Switzerland, and the Sky Marathon de la Grigne in Italy.