The masseurs did a fantastic job keeping us going

Just 10 months after giving birth to her first child, Czech mother Mili Koottungal completed the course in under 27 hours.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Jun 2010, 11:31 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2010, 11:49 BST

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"It was tough," she said. "I had a bit of a crisis at about the 90-to-95 kilometre mark. I hurt my knee skiing last year and it really was getting painful.

"But you just want to keep going, especially knowing all the people who have sponsored you to do it.I was never going to give up."

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Two of her team mates in the Critical Path Hikers team were forced to retire with back injuries along the way, but fourth member Andy Geldard – who was born in Skipton – finished alongside her.

"If it hadn't been for the masseurs along the way, I really don't think we'd have made it," he said.

"They were absolutely fantastic.

"There are so many painful injuries but they really sort you out at each check-poiint and get you back on your feet.

"At some points it really is just one foot in front of the other though.

"We wanted to do it for the guys who couldn't finish, as much as anything.

"You just have to keep going."