Whilst relaxing in the sauna at Fitness First St Albans one wintry evening I thought how marvellous it would be to do something energetic. I was thinking along the lines of a 5k run but made the mistake of mentioning these ambitions to my boyfriend Tommy T. Before I knew it I was booking a single from northernmost Scotland to London, having heart attacks on Dartmoor and admiring Brooks saddles at London traffic lights. Brother Orlando has been taken along for the ride, on the basis that he once cycled 50 miles on the Tarka trail.

Pay to see me transform into Chris Hoy! I'm raising money for Nightingales Children's Charity - I volunteered in an orphanage in Cernavoda, Romania, for a month and they do really great things and need lots of money to keep going.