Regular readers might remember that The Diary recently “competed” in the City of London Road Race, a mammoth task that involved a three-and-a-half mile run followed by a piss up – and God did we feel bad the next day.

Well, the people at Masons thought that they would go one or two (or maybe even three) steps better by taking part in the Aplastic Anaemia Trust’s London to Paris triathlon a couple of weeks ago.