Meet more of the team

Travelling up from the South of England specially to help on the last section of my Pennine Way challenge will be my daughter Sally and son Eden, both of them successful marathon runners, Sally in the London marathon and Eden in the inaugural Brighton marathon last year.

Both of them know the sort of terrain they will have to cope with having accompanied me on last year's abortive attempt at this challenge. Sally, who lives in Fleet, Hampshire, and Eden, from Hove, have been training hard to build up the stamina to run up to 17 miles through the northern moorlands.

They are both keen martial arts enthusiasts, Sally being a black belt, second dan, at Karate and a veteran of the Karate world championships held in Manchester a couple of years ago, while Eden is a black belt at Kendo. So no problem with team security.

They will be accompanied by triathalon ironman Spud who learned a bit about the north while working in Lancashire for a number of years and took part in the Bolton ironman event. I'm told that unlike The Stig he has a first and last name but has been known universally since childhood as Spud.

The pictures above show Eden and myself on our last visit to Edale and Sally ready for the Fleet Half Marathon.