I understand there was some scurrilous piece in Tuesday’s Oxford Mail suggesting that I don’t get on my bicycle!

I attach a photograph of my wife, Pippa, and myself, having completed the Help for Heroes Big Battlefield Bike Ride in 2008, which involved cycling an average of 80 miles a day for six days across northern France, to raise funds for Help for Heroes and Headley Court.

Last year I took part in, and completed, the Blenheim Triathlon – which, as you will know, involves swimming, running and cycling.

How many Oxford Mail or Times journalists have done the Blenheim Triathlon? Will you be putting in a team this year?

Tony Baldry MP House of Commons London Editor’s note: Three members of Team Newsquest have taken part in the Blenheim Triathlon – Emma Kate Lidbury, Malcolm