Kim Collison
After spending a decade empowering young people to believe in themselves through the power and magic of adventures in the Lake District, I'm sharing my experience, passion and knowledge for endurance running to coach and support others. This coaching and support helps you realise new challenges, reach goals and achieve ambitions. I believe in a cooperative approach to coaching with individualised training plans and the flexibility to respond to changes.
I have twice represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at World Trail Championships; winning a team Bronze in 2015. Prior to this I was part of a Great British team at three Adventure racing world championships; achieving 6th place in Ecuador 2014.
In 2014, with victory at the Lakeland 50, I was British Trail Running Champion and went on to achieve a number ultra records on the trails including Hardmoors 55 (55 miles), Lakeland Trails 110km (65 miles), Lakes in a Day (50 miles) and Arc of Attrition (100 miles).
Overseas trail running experience includes a top 10 finish in the Skyrunning World Championship, winning the Falcotrail Ultra in Spain and finisher at the Courmayeur Champex Chamonix (CCC), Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie (TDS) and Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB).
On the fells I'm a keen Fell Runner and Mountain Marathon competitor with significant success including wining a British Championship race, a close second in an English Championship race, wins in both the Elite and Long Score classes at the Original Mountain Marathon (OMM) and twice winning the Elite Dark Mountains Mountain Marathon. I have completed Winter and Summer Bob Graham Rounds including breaking the winter record in 2019 with a time 15hrs 47mins
Incredibly in July 2020, I managed to break the Lakeland 24 hour fell record with 78 tops. In April 2021 I broke the record for the Paddy Buckley round in Wales, one of the big 3 rounds and in July 2021 I broke the 24 hour Munro record with 33 tops.
Since breaking records on the rounds I have been challenging my ability to run super long ultras with notable success in breaking the course record at the Northern Traverse 2022. After 10 years I returned to win the Fellsman 2024 for the second time.
Today I'm still finding ways to challenge myself to achieve smiles as the years stack up.
During my outdoor education career at the Outward Bound Trust, I qualified as a Mountain Leader, Single Pitch Climbing Instructor, UKCC British Canoe Union Level 2 Coach. Certification in Transactional Analysis (TA101), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and First Aid. I'm a qualified (UKA) United Kingdom Athletics Level 2 Fell & Mountain Running Development Coach & UESCA Ultra Running Coach.