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   WTF why does he have to wait...NHS is the best in the world.????   
   “I have been having heart problems and have been waiting for some time now   
   to have the problem diagnosed and hopefully rectified.”   
   He is 78 no way will they fix his heart..pain pill and go home you old   
   goat.   
      
   Ron Hill, 78, a three-time Olympian for Great Britain, ended his   
   running streak on Sunday, January 29.   
      
   The streak—during which Hill ran at least one mile every day—had stood for   
   52 years, 39 days. It was the longest known running streak in history.    
      
   In a statement released by Streak Runners International, Hill, who lives in   
   Hyde, a town a few miles east of Manchester, wrote: “I have been having   
   heart problems and have been waiting for some time now to have the problem   
   diagnosed and hopefully    
   rectified.”   
      
   On January 28, Hill wrote, he ran his last mile of the streak.    
      
   “After less than 400 metres my heart started to hurt and over the last 800   
   metres the problem got worse and worse,” the statement reads. “I thought I   
   might I die but just made it to 1 mile in 16 minutes and 34 seconds. There was   
   no other option but    
   to stop. I owed that to my wife, family and friends plus myself.”   
      
   In 2014, when Hill’s streak hit 50 years, he told Runner’s World, “I   
   hope to live to 100 years and still be running.” Over the first 50 years of   
   the streak, he averaged more than seven miles per day, but he had been running   
   less, about 25 miles    
   per week, in his mid 70s.    
      
   The streak was only one small accomplishment in Hill’s career. He competed   
   in the Olympics in 1964, 1968, and 1972. In fact, his disappointment in his   
   performance in the 10,000 meters and marathon at the 1964 Games in Tokyo was   
   what inspired him to    
   begin the streak.    
      
   Hill won the Boston Marathon in 1970 in 2:10:30, what was then the course   
   record. He was the second person to break 2:10 in the marathon, running a   
   personal best of 2:09:28. He held world records for 10 miles, 15 miles, and   
   25K on the roads.   
      
   According to SRI, Jon Sutherland, 66, of West Hills, California, now holds the   
   longest streak for consecutive days running, at 47 years and 8 months. He said   
   he was saddened by the end of Hill’s streak.   
      
   “I’m a fan from afar,” Sutherland said of Hill. “He was an incredible   
   pioneer, one of the most important figures in the evolution of running.”   
   Sutherland says that Hill had a four-year streak going before the 52-year   
   string of runs began.    
      
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   Sutherland is not sure whether he will be able to continue running to approach   
   the mark that Hill set. “I had my worst year ever in 2016,” Sutherland   
   said. Plagued by nagging injuries, he ran 1,066 miles in 2016, and on 20 days,   
   he ran the one-mile    
   minimum required to maintain his streak. (He usually runs three miles each day   
   at between nine- and 10-minute-mile pace.)    
      
   “[The streak] doesn’t drive me that much,” he said. “I was more driven   
   by competition when I was younger. I do it because I enjoy it. I try not to   
   think about it.”   
      
   Jim Pearson, 72, of Marysville, Washington, is second on the current streak   
   list (46 years, 11 months).    
      
   Stephen De Boer, 62, of Rochester, Minnesota, is currently in third place at   
   45 years, 7 months. In an email to Runner’s World, he said he is not   
   motivated to try to set the longest streak, even though he is younger than   
   those ahead of him on the list.    
      
   “It is an internal thing to run every day, no matter who is ahead of or   
   behind me,” he wrote.   
      
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