The Wrexham hospice, which provides free palliative care services, is close to both their hearts.

This is because Nightingale House cared for Sam’s father-in-law and Cindy’s mother-in-law in their final days.

Having off at 6am on Thursday, February 27, they faced severe weather and foot injuries but finished in Cardiff at the Principality Stadium at 5.45pm on Sunday, March 1 – St David’s Day.

Sam said: “It was a massive challenge to take on but we did it, all sorts of weather, climbing mountains and pounding the roads.

“We managed to maintain a decent pace to enable us to cover the miles we did each day.

“And our feet sure are paying the price – with doctor’s orders of ‘feet up’ and ‘rest’ prescribed.”

And they came up with a clever way to deal with flooded roads.

Sam said: “During our training days we encountered some so thought about how we could cross practically, so we used blue recycling bags.

“They’re easy to carry and we just slipped our feet in a bag each and waded very carefully through – some parts were about a foot and a half deep.

“It worked really well until we lost one of the bags on the last day, but we reverted back to childhood and waded through like we were on a three-legged race which we didn’t stop laughing at.”

They were also assisted by a farmer in Powys.

Sam explained: “We hit a flooded road were just preparing our feet with the bags as this farmer in a pickup truck pulled up and asked if we wanted a lift for about 50 to 80 metres of heavily flooded road.

“So he dropped the back boot of the truck and and we jumped on. It was probably about two foot deep there was a a high probability of getting soaked if he hadn’t have rescued us.”