Joss Naylor deserves to be far better-known, though I doubt if he would enjoy it. Fell running is indeed very special, Dean and has its own heroes. I think the reason that the so-called elite athletes tend not to take part is that (apart from it not fitting their plans) is that it's just simply too hard - and not a little dangerous. I only tried two fell races, though I used to run over the moors a lot and once ran the Lyke Wake Walk. I did the Three Peaks race in my late twenties or early thirties and did a respectable time. However, the winner, Jeff Norman, finished about an hour ahead! I was like a sheet when I came in, apparently. It's a big regeret that t I've been warned off running because of arthritis, otherwise I'd still be on the moors most days. But running's loss is cycling's gain, I hear nobody say!
My only beef with the programme was that it spent too much time on the talking heads and not enough on just the scenery: you couldn't even have got odds on a Wainwright-related interview or ten minutes with Eric Robson.
Edit - sorry, that's all about me and not the programme. I just got carried away by reminiscence!