Adam Hollioake is more used to running 22 yards. But this week the former England cricket captain finds himself walking miles through the North-East in memory of his brother Ben.
The Surrey star is walking from Edinburgh to Brighton, then cycling to Spain and Gibraltar and sailing to Morocco as part of a 2,000-mile triathlon raising funds for the Ben Hollioake Fund and CHASE Children's Hospice Service.
The fund was set up after Ben - also an England cricketer of enormous promise - died at the age of just 24 in a car crash in Perth, Australia.
Adam, 31, set off from Edinburgh last Thursday and yesterday made his way across the Scottish border from Jedburgh, finishing his 26-mile hike in Otterburn.
"It's tiring and I don't feel as fit as I did when I started the walk," said Adam last night.
"But I have met some nice people along the way and the weather was beautiful and a real bonus, as were some of the views."
Asked why he had decided on such a gruelling series of journeys, Adam said: "The fund will go to help dying children, but we knew people wouldn't keep on donating.
"We needed to do something to capture their imagination - something to make them sit up and take notice.
"It couldn't just be a walk, or a cycle, or a sail. So I came up with the idea for the triathlon."
Adam will leave Otterburn today to walk south-east to Ponteland.
His route is expected to take him down the A696 through Belsay.
Tomorrow he will set off again from Ponteland to Newcastle.
From there he will walk to Chester-le-Street on Wednesday, where he will be received at the Riverside Ground, home of Durham County Cricket Club and the newest ground on England's Test match rota.
Adam said he was very much looking forward to visiting the ground which held its first ever Test Match in June when England took on Zimbabwe.
He is following in the footsteps of former Durham and England legend Ian Botham who has raised millions of pounds on charity walks which have included from Land's End to John O'Groats and across the Alps, with elephants in tow.
