A group of mothers will be running through Bath on Saturday to help raise money to prevent deaths from undetected heart conditions.
the three-mile sponsored run has been organised by Sarah Buckley, of Combe Down, in memory of her brother Richard Wiggin.
The 38-year-old computer programmer from Newport in Wales, who loved cycling, had been fit and apparently healthy when he collapsed and died during a bike ride in January.
Sarah, of Bradford Road, said: "It was absolutely unexpected, the last thing I could have imagined happening."
She said she had received great support from the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), which provides counselling for bereaved families and arranges screening for people who may be at risk from undiagnosed heart conditions.
Sarah said she was introduced to CRY as soon as the post-mortem revealed her brother had died of sudden cardiac death (SCD).
"They made themselves available to us as a whole family. The support was just amazing."
CRY says that every week in the UK at least 12 people under the age of 35 die from SCD. The charity campaigns to raise awareness of the dangers and calls for better cardiac screening as some forms of SCD have a genetic link.
The charity also helped Sarah organise health checks for herself and her three children.
She said: "I'm so grateful to them and wanted to do something to help the charity. When I found out Rich had died, my heart asked 'can some good come out of this?" I wanted a constructive edge to the grieving process."
Sarah will be joined by 11 friends, most of them mothers at Combe Down Primary School, for the run. They will set off from Widcombe Lock at 4pm, and finish at Royal Victoria Park.
To sponsor Sarah and her team, log on to
http://www.fundraising.com/sarah-buckley.
The runnners are holding a coffee morning tomorrow at South Stoke Village Hall from 10am to noon. Entrance is £2.50 and proceeds go to CRY.
