In April 2010, Peta will join wounded soldiers once again in support of Help for Heroes by running the Virgin London Marathon. The marathon consists of 26.2 miles of hard work but Peta will have great motivation in the form of Ben McBean, Matt Kingston, and Martin Hewitt, three incredible wounded Servicemen who are running the marathon alongside her. Peta will also join H4H's very own Chief of Staff Mark Eliott and hundreds of H4H supporters who will be raising money at the same time. Although she says it will be tough, Peta's never been one to turn down a challenge and she says it will be worth it:

"As a patron of this amazing charity I think every little helps and if me making a twit of myself struggling round 26 miles helps, then I'm there."

Keep checking this page for more updates on Peta's London Marathon 2010 challenge, or you can see who else is running the marathon in support of Help for Heroes by visiting our 2010 London Marathon page.

If you would like to donate to Peta's London Marathon challenge and help her raise thousands for Help for Heroes, please visit her Justgiving page here.

Peta joined a team of 16 to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in October 2009. Along with H4H co-founders Bryn and Emma Parry and 5 wounded soldiers, our patron climbed for seven days to the highest point in Africa, 19,300 feet up. She battled through driving rain, sleet, splitting headaches and altitude sickness to reach the summit with 13 of the team on day six, before descending on day seven.

Climbing up to seven hours a day, Peta slept in a one man tent at night, in temperatures ranging from 0 to 15 degrees.

Although the whole trip was tough, the last 1,000 metres to the summit were extreme. The attempt on the summit started at 11pm on the 28th October. Our girl climbed for 6 hours with 1/3 of the normal oxygen available, enduring temperatures as low as -12 degrees. That morning, as dawn broke on the African landscape, Peta and the team reached the summit.

She said of the trip: "Altitude sickness made it very hard. It was very emotional reaching the top."

You can help Peta raise £3,000 for Help for Heroes by sponsoring her at her Justgiving page:

www.justgiving.com/peta-todd

Wingwalking

Article at The Sun

Peta joined Sam and his latest intake towards the end of their training.

She took part in their final practice before they faced their five-day tests. Sam, 29, explained: “Our standards are higher than anywhere else in the Army, that’s why we are elite. It isn’t policy to exclude women from military parachute duties but unlike the Marines, there hasn’t been a woman who has passed our selection course yet.”

When it comes to the real thing, the lads will have to complete a ten-mile speed march loaded up with a 35lb rucksack and an 8lb gun.To be successful, a recruit has to nail it in under one hour and 50 minutes.

Peta and the recruits faced a two-mile practice run and our girl astonished everyone by completing the course, although a little slower than the pack. Next came the steeplechase, a daunting mile and a half of water troughs, tunnels, climbing walls and general hard graft.

Peta said: “It’s cold, wet and muddy. My clothes are soaked and it’s demoralising. I take my hat off to these boys.”

But there was worse to come.

Giving our girl a taste of free-falling were the Red Devils — the Parachute Regiment’s legendary aerial display team. Strapped to the stomach of instructor Sergeant Jay Webster, Peta leapt from a plane at 13,000ft, plummeting earthwards at 120mph.

Once through a cloud bank Jay popped open the canopy and they drifted down for ten minutes, landing on the airfield at Netheravon, Wilts — home to the Red Devils.

Peta’s P Company experience was complete.