Jamie is now breathing distance away from Matlock, his final destination on this fourth day of his Ultra Marathon Man challenge for Comic Relief.

Here's a look back at the jubilant scenes that greeted him in Loughborough at the finish line yesterday.

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Charlie Hedges
Presenter, BBC Radio 1

It's been hilly all day, but this final stretch is something else.

This feels bad to say because we've been asking for your kindness and generosity all day, but on a serious note: If Jamie gets to this finish line today and those donations have gone up, I don't know what it's going to mean to him.

Jamie is getting closer to Day 4's finish line in Matlock - we've heard he's just a few miles away.

We say 'just'... A few miles at any point is still a colossal distance, let alone when moving a limb feels like lifting cement.

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Vick & Jerry
Radio 1 presenters

Vick: He's really pushing through that pain, both physical and mental. And what we heard there about Jamie not accepting love, that's got me.

Jerry: It kind of hit me as well, I feel like a lot of men aren't really open with their emotions especially when it comes to love... it's almost like a therapy session for Jamie but for everyone else listening as well because it can inspire other men and people in general to be expressive with their love.

Our friends at CBBC have made a great quiz about all the previous Radio 1 challenges for Comic Relief.

Celebs, singers, sweat and tears - we've had it all.

See if you can get a top score here.

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Vick & Jerry
Radio 1 presenters

It's the final stretch for Jamie, and Vick and Jerry are waiting for him in Matlock where he'll be finishing today - that's the good news, the bad news is that our ultra marathon man has to climb a pretty big hill to get there. Come on Jamie!

Vick: There's a big old hill that comes up to this finish line.

Jerry: That hill is, honestly, I don't know how to describe it. It's just stupidly big.

Vick: It's stupidly big! Who put that there!

Vick and Jerry are live on Radio 1 now bringing all the latest updates. Listen on BBC Sounds.

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Jamie Laing
Radio 1's Ultra Marathon Man

Guys, thank you. Thank you so much. I'm sorry I've been so emotional today, I don't know what the body does when it gets put through so much stress and, I don't know, trauma or whatever it is. But it's just all the emotions, I think this is about 30 years of emotions all coming out this week.

As Jamie settled into his third pit stop of the day, he shared his motivations for getting through his fourth ultra marathon today, and we can't think of a better reason to keep going ❤️

Charlie Hedges: I just need to paint a picture of what we've witnessed between the last time we spoke to you until now. Jamie's basically running on country roads, it is so lonely I cannot tell you. I don't think I've even seen another car in the last 45 minutes. It's so lonely to watch him run and be in so much pain, and I don't know how you're doing it Jamie, but you are. You're so close now to the end of today. What is going on in your head? What's getting you through?

Jamie: The thing that is ringing in my ears is that lovely person who was going through chemo and she donated some of her money to do this, and that is way more pain and suffering than I'm experiencing. So if someone like that can donate and just be giving to someone else like me, that's what's getting me through this. Those are the kinds of things I'm thinking about to be honest.

Jamie Laing
Radio 1's Ultra Marathon Man

Lovely Charlotte who cooks the food has just got me some scotch eggs with some salad cream. Which is unbelievable to be honest.

Charlie Hedges
Presenter, BBC Radio 1

Today Charlie Hedges is out on the road checking in with Jamie and reporting back to the Radio 1 studio - Sam & Danni are live now. Reportedly, during Jamie's last trip to the massage table he genuinely thought he had broken his foot. Thankfully, a false alarm.

If you know Charlie then you'll know she's rarely lost for words but even she is struggling to find the words to help Jamie. So she asked Jamie's long-time mate JP what she should do. "I think you've got to be tough on him now because he's losing his way a little bit." was his advice.

Charlie: "It weren't nice to do but I did have to give him a bit of a telling off. He said 'I can't do it' and I said 'Jamie, there's no option, you have to do it.' And obviously I don't mean that because if he stopped now he's done more than enough."

"I had to turn away because I felt sad I had to be so mean to him but it does seem to have done something, so thank you to his mate for giving me that insight into his brain."

To donate any amount online to Comic Relief and to support Jamie’s challenge, click this link, external.

The above link takes you to an external donation page for Comic Relief. Its use is subject to their Terms of Use, external & Privacy Notice, external.

If you would like to donate via text:

To donate £10 text the word TEN to 70011

To donate £20 text the word TWENTY to 70011

To donate £30 text the word THIRTY to 70011

(UK ONLY) Texts cost your donation amount +1 std rate message. 100% of your donation will go to Comic Relief. You must be 16+ and have the bill payer’s permission.

For full terms and information on the registered charity, go to bbc.co.uk/jamie.

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If anyone is going to understand the gruelling challenge that Jamie's undertaking right now it would be the Hardest Geezer, who ran the length of Africa from April 2023 - 2024.

At yesterday's finish line, he sent a motivational message to our Ultra Marathon Man and a heartfelt gift - the England shirt that he wore whilst running across the world's second largest continent.

Watch below to see Jamie's wholesome reaction - but the question we all want to know: has the shirt been washed since the Hardest Geezer ran the 9,900 miles across Africa?

To give Jamie that extra push, Charlie Hedges put together a special motivational dance mix which you may have heard earlier on Radio 1.

If you're in need of some more powerful tunes to get you up and out on the road in solidarity with Jamie, the man himself has put together an hour of anthems to help you set the pace.

Jamie Laing
Radio 1's Ultra Marathon Man

...so you can't stop, and if you do stop then you have to walk really quickly. So I keep running otherwise I would collapse.

It's literally one foot in front of the other, the metaphor we said at the beginning. When you are having those awful times and you're feeling terrible, or you're feeling anxious, or you're feeling down or you're feeling sad, or whatever it is you've just got to keep going, as much as it hurts.

As much as you don't want to, you've just got to keep going. So that's what I'm doing. I keep going.

Jamie Laing
Radio 1's Ultra Marathon Man

It’s very hot out there so there’s a lot of heat, and I quite cleverly just wore black, which is not the one, so I’m basically absorbing all the heat. So that was quite tough. My knees feel like they’re about to explode.

The problem is I’ve never run this. I’ve never run a marathon, I’ve never run a 10k before, the furthest I ran ever was this year, and it was 25km. I thought ‘that would be enough’, it’s really not enough! My body is saying ‘what are you doing? You probably need to stop’ and it’s shutting down on me at the moment.

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