Last week Obiter playfully suggested that Sky One might have little trouble finding a lawyer who is working long hours, not exercising, eating unhealthy foods and so on to appear in its new TV series on how to sort out a better quality of life. How wrong could we be? Judging by the press releases flooding in over the last couple of weeks, lawyers everywhere are going exercise crazy. Alured Darlington, 71-year-old president of the Middlesex Law Society and criminal law advocate at Hayes firm Veja & Co, deserves special recognition for completing the first of three cycle rides this year in aid of the British Heart Foundation after tackling the recent London to Brighton ride. Also on their bikes were employment solicitors Laurence Dunn and Darren Tibble from White & Bowker in Hampshire, who raised £1,900 for the Samaritans by completing the Ultimate Challenge of cycling more than 520 miles through France and Switzerland. Manchester firm Pannone & Partners meanwhile has been in touch to say that its men's and ladies' teams were triumphant in the Greater Manchester run. One of the firm's lawyers, Seb Jackson, also recently won tennis gold in the men's singles at the European Corporate Games and has gained entry to the World Corporate Games in Croatia in October. This is not to mention sundry firms involved in events such as the Race for Life. Up and coming events will see 36 members of staff at Croydon firm Ormerods - one-third of the practice - run in the British 10k London run next week in aid of the Childhood Cancer Unit Parents Association based at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton. But be warned of the risk of over-selling your achievements. London firm Howard Kennedy sent in a release hailing its participation in the property industry's 5k Land Aid fun run around Battersea Park, reporting on its 'impressive third place in the solicitors' cup'. What it failed to mention was that there were only three teams in that competition. Still, it did raise an admirable £900 for a worthy cause.