A TEAM of fundraisers pushed their fitness levels to the limit by taking part in a 10k run in support of a couple whose one-year-old son died.

The runners, from Fitness Flex boot camp, decided to take on the Brutal 10, at Windmill Hill, to raise money for The Sudden Unexplained Death in Children (SUDC) Foundation.

They signed up to the extreme endurance challenge in support of Emslie and Sally Law, whose son Thomas died suddenly in his sleep.

The couple, who are members of the boot camp, tried for six years to have a baby and underwent four rounds of fertility treatment before conceiving their only child.

But on March 14, 2013, they put their 22-month-old to bed, only to find him lifeless hours later.

As previously reported in The Gazette, an inquest into Thomas’ death found the cause to be sudden infant death syndrome, associated with chicken pox.

Around 25 members of Fitness Flex took part in Brutal 10 on Saturday, March 14, to raise funds for the charity that supports those who have lost their children suddenly and unexpectedly.

Holli Darmody, one of the runners, said: “We all decided that we want to do our next run together for SUDC. The run is on the anniversary of Thomas’ death, it’s been two years.”

The event challenged the runners to make their way across hills, swamps, and woodland trails, pushing them to their limit.

Twenty-seven-year-old Holli, a mother-of-one, from South Ham, said: “Some of the runners had never done a run like this in their life.”

The team asked people to sponsor them by donating to Mr and Mrs Law’s Just Giving fundraising page, which they set up in memory of their son to raise funds for The SUDC Foundation.

The team managed to raise £2,000.

On the page, the couple posted: “There was no indication of anything being wrong before we put him to bed that fateful evening when our world was shattered. He was our miracle boy.

"The child we’d yearned for and finally got, after six hard years of trying. A little man with a smile and giggle to cheer any moment and melt any heart.

“The light of our lives was taken and everything is now, and will forever more be, slightly darker for not having him with us.

“The pain of loss does not diminish with time, it is a constant, always there. But we we go on and want to make his life and the joy he brought to so many be the purpose of our lives and not focus on that horrible evening and the time after.”

To donate visit http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/thomaslaw/thomaslawsfundraisingpage-1.