Army aids Mather with charity race
Former international rugby player Cameron Mather has been put through his paces by the Army ahead of Scotland's Sport Relief challenge.
He joined BBC Scotland's Cat Cubie and Catriona Shearer at Edinburgh Castle for the launch of the First Nation Home event.
Celebrity teams representing England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland will compete to finish a 1,000-mile race to raise money for Sport Relief.
Stars such as Gethin Jones, gardener Diarmuid Gavin, Gemma Atkinson and rugby player-turned-Celebrity Big Brother contestant Gareth Thomas will also feature in the teams heading around the UK and Ireland.
The four celebrity teams will start the race simultaneously from their home cities of Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh and London. They will run, row, cycle and sail their way over 1,000 miles around the United Kingdom and Ireland between March 10 and 17.
The event will coincide with the Six Nations Rugby Championship and climaxes on the last Saturday of the tournament when the winners will be crowned.
The Army has been drafted in to provide logistical support to the teams. It will provide the participants with hot food and drinks, sort out overnight accommodation and help with the equipment, which will include bicycles, rowing machines and personal kit.
The Scottish team will set off from Edinburgh Castle on the morning of March 10, returning eight days later on March 17 having covered 1,164 miles around the UK and Ireland. The other three national sides of England, Ireland and Wales will also pass through the Scottish capital during that challenge week.
In addition to the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile in which members of the public can join one, three or six-mile runs, people can raise cash by buying special branded socks and T-shirts.
Cash from the Sport Relief weekend - from March 23 to 25 - will go towards helping vulnerable people across the UK and in some of the world's poorest countries.
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