Sara Cox received an emotional phone call from her mum on the penultimate day of her Children in Need challenge.
The BBC Radio 2 presenter is currently on Day 4 of her 135-mile Great Northern Marathon Challenge, and will lace up her running shoes one last time tomorrow for the big finale.
The Pudsey to Pudsey mission has seen Sara travel from BBC HQ in London to the Yorkshire town, all in aid of Children in Need.
After another gruelling day on the road, she has now completed more than 100 miles and helped raise over £3 million for the charity.
Supporters have turned out in force along the route to cheer her on, while hundreds more have flooded social media with messages of encouragement.
In a video shared by BBC Radio 2, Sara was seen getting a surprise call from her mum while on the road today. The moment quickly turned emotional.
Standing in a phone box, Sara broke down in tears when she heard her mum’s voice: “Hi sweetheart! It’s your mum.”
“We’re tracking you from India,” she could be heard saying.
“Well done, darling! You’re doing amazing!”
Sara reassured her mum that she was “just sore” but otherwise doing well.
Speaking to the BBC as she approached the end of Day 4, Sara said she was in “so much pain” but that “quitting is absolutely not an option”.
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“I don't even want to think about tomorrow, I just can't even think about it babe I'm in so much pain,” she said.
“My legs, my calves are so swollen, the paramedic was taking my pulse at the last stop a couple of miles away because I was just running along the street going, "No pain, no pain, no pain", just trying to do mind over matter.
“They asked me if I wanted to carry on a couple of miles back and I'm like, "Yes! Let's finish it.
“It's all so sore but that amount, 3 and a half million, is just incredible.
“Quitting is absolutely not an option.”
Dubbed “Sara’s Great Northern Marathon Challenge,” the presenter has been running, jogging and walking through the moorlands and rolling hills of Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire and West Yorkshire carrying a Pudsey Bear backpack.
Her journey started in Kielder Forest on November 10 and concludes in Pudsey, Leeds, tomorrow.
