We have just had this email in from Nia. She and three others have been training extremely hard for this High Peak Marathon over the last 4 months. We hope you have a successful night and we will raise our glasses to you that evening and hope that with your effort and our support, money can be raised to help this little girl.
Basically 4 of us, all middle-aged women are setting off at 10pm on Friday night and will be covering 42 miles over some of the bleakest ground in Derbyshire; otherwise known as the Derwent Watershed. We cover the peat bogs of Howden Moor and Bleaklow and Mam Tor. We aim to finish around 2pm on Saturday and then sleep for the rest of the weekend. We are doing it to raise money for a friend’s 7-year old daughter who has had part of both arms and legs amputated after catching meningitis last October. We want to buy her quality artificial limbs.
If you would like to sponsor/donate please drop your money off at Honeysuckle Cottage door or drop off in the Legion. There will also be a tin for donations on Friday night in the Pub.
Thank you so much. Nia
PARWICH.ORG 
If you could possibly push it a bit, you could be finished in time to do the Cloud 9 on Sunday……just tell the kids to go down the chippy :o)
Good effort Nia – this race is legendary – 42 miles over the toughest ground in England, overnight, at the beginning of March……….. now………. how many fingers am I holding up????
14:02 on Saturday – have you made it, I wonder?
Whilst I think you are just a weebit mad (as Graham says “…early March …”, night frost, only the stars, Sheffield’s light pollution and a headtorch to help you see where you’re going, Derwent watershed, hardly a clearly defined route and very hard going …), I also think you are VERY brave and doing it for such a very worthwhile cause.
Whether or not you completed it, well done. And if you’re somewhere stuck in the peat, don’t worry, it’s a good preservative … afterall they found the iron age bog(wo)man more or less in tact.
Have just heard that you have finished – well done Nia. An amazing feat and although I think you are bonkers I am full of admiration. Hope you raise lots of money for this little girl.
thanks for all the Parwich supporters of Go-Girls in the High Peak Marathon. It was knowing we had sponsors that kept us going because the desire to give up was very strong. We didn’t turn into peat bog women but we have aged significantly.