one person on the map for 2h hours, or to raise monday for the charity reorg, which murk has been raising monday for throughout this year. let s look back at the last 2a hours and the life of murk 0rmrod and many other people around the world mark 0rmrod. you are all incredible, you re all doing amazing things, think of in the dark hours when you re feeling tired and fatigued and let s smash this, all right? everyone doing good? let s do it, everyone, let s go. whether those hours ahead will prove dark or not, there are 2a of them to go. people at 60 gyms around the world all fighting and all inspired to take part in the rollathon organised by this man. this isn t like a secret underground fight club, this is the far end opposite of that, this is about bringing people together, teaching, learning, building communities, helping people improve their physical and mental health. this is the grand finale
of mark 0rmrod s fundraising year. the former royal marine and triple amputee was seriously injured in afghanistan, and is now raising money for the charity reorg, which uses this martial art, brazilianjujitsu, to help raise money to support members of the military, veterans, and the emergency services. people like police officer evie williams. we get self defence training, but it is maybe not enough if you are smaller or against someone who has got training themselves. recent months have seen him complete a five kilometre run, a sea swim off the coast of plymouth, and a 100 mile overnight hand bike ride. when he actually came to me, iwas like, mark, you ve peaked, the hand bike was your summit, | but what puts me in was the fact that he wanted to bring - the whole community together, you know what i mean? - so it it has done full circle, it started with jujitsu, - went on this epic adventure, i and it has come back tojujitsu. everyone on their maps together,
himself ever harder physically and mentally, he once again it defies the odds and, at the same time, inspires others tojoin him. thousands of joint thousands ofjoint over the last 24 hours. we are just going to interrupt you boys. i will come round just now, mark, you re going 24 hours, you told me before the challenger might do an hour on the mat and an hour off, but you have really only ticking off a couple of hours. . . really only ticking off a couple of hours. ., ., , ., really only ticking off a couple of hours. ., ., i. ~ ., really only ticking off a couple of hours. ., ., , ., 4 ., ., hours. yeah, and you know what? i honestly thought, hours. yeah, and you know what? i honestly thought, three hours. yeah, and you know what? i honestly thought, three or - hours. yeah, and you know what? i honestly thought, three or four - honestly thought, three or four o clock in the morning, it would be me and ben and a core group of six orseven me and ben and a core group of six or seven
tell it is a fairly sort of easy gradient, looks as if they are on the flat. then it is not having to work too hard, freewheeling a bit. mark is propelling himself with just that one arm. left i m strong, as they called it last night. driving along was not his right arm, amputated above the elbow, with the prosthetic, is then attached to the hand he is using to propel himself. that effectively is just there for steering, he isn t getting any drive with that, everything he is doing is just a way that that left arm. an incredible, incredible effort. coming into the last stages now, we will see him arrive. we will have family and friends to welcome him back and congratulate him. he says he won t do any more challenges, i am not sure anyone quite believe that. hopefully he will have enough energy to talk to us but you have to say, what a man. extraordinary
i m back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now it s back to charlie and nina. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and nina warhurst. coming up on breakfast this morning. daring to hope again was alan shearer s reaction to the £300 million takeover of newcastle united he lljoin us at 0745. # she cries on the floor encumbered. # i m 17 going under. singer songwriter and fellow magpie sam fender will also be here to share his thoughts on the future of the club and we ll find out why writing his latest album felt like therapy. we ll also follow ex marine and triple amputee mark 0rmrod throughout the programme this morning as he completes his gruelling 99.9 mile hand cycle.