The Journal entered this fit-looking trio into the inappropriately named team sprint at last weekend's London Triathlon, at the Excel Centre in London's Docklands.
Left to right, the athletic specimens above are ex-editor Dominic Weaver, Karl Marriott, formerly on the advertising team at the Journal and current staff reporter John Broy.
The fearsome threesome took on all-comers in the race, which featured a 750-metre swim (Marriott), 20- kilometre bike ride (Weaver) and 5km run (Broy), coming a creditable 53rd out of 82 teams, in one hour and 33 minutes of sweat and hard toil.
Marriott swam the first leg in a fetching black and blue wetsuit, rushed across by courier from Penzance on the day before when it was realised their was not one big enough to fit him in the capital.
He powered eel-like to the finish line to hand over to Weaver, on his state-of-the-art 10-year-old mountain bike, who rang his bell loudly as he passed several elderly competitors en route.
Last and least was triathlon man Broy, who shuffled around the winding roads of east London, pausing only briefly to marvel at the freshinfo.com banners along the way.
The sum total of their efforts was a place in Triathlon history; holders of the new world record-time for a team sprint by a team from the Fresh Produce Journal. Well done lads, we're proud of you.
The triathlon was not, though, merely an opportunity to wilt in the sunshine, it raised large sums of money for charity. The four golden charities of the event were Community Links, The National Children's Hospital, Rainbow Trust and Cancer Research UK, all of which received healthy sums towards their tremendous work.
As reported on page one, the Journal introduced fresh produce to the industry cup section of the Triathlon, with the freshinfo.com cup taking its place alongside the nurses cup and the lawyers cup among others.
The section was a fitting finale to the two-day event, the largest triathlon in Europe and second largest in the world. The event, in its third year, attracted more than 5,000 competitors and 15,000 spectators to the sun-drenched centre.
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