FITNESS fans have been hard at work doing their best to help a woman who will need to be as fit as she can to meet the challenge of a lifetime.

Grandmother Jill Lucas, 56, from Staverton, was chosen from hundreds of thousands of entrants to a competition by ITV's This Morning to find people to cycle 800km across rural India to raise money for charity. She is being helped to build up her fitness for the challenge, which takes place later this month, by staff at Castle Place Leisure Centre in Trowbridge.