Summer solstice challenge
Hi guys online entries are now closed for our Summer solstice challenge, but we will allow entries on the day £25 cash , everyone who has signed up will receive the final email today, the weather is looking great so it should be the perfect evening for getting those laps in , the medals,t-shirts & vests are all ready and I have had two little cups made up for who can do the most laps for male & female 🤘🏃♀️🏃😎looking forward to seeing you from 4pm on Thursday, this is your challenge on the longest day of the year , run , walk or jog the 5k laps it’s your choice or stop at our fed station each lap for a rest & something to eat or drink all free, no pressure on this one you do what you like starting anytime from 4pm until 9:30pm your chasing the Sun
☀️🤘🙌🏃♀️🏃x
The winners
All of our winners on the 7.5 & 15 mile event DWRR 🤘🏃♀️🏃♂️💪🙌well guys x
Dave Wrights Colchester 15 winner 🥇
When the winner of the 15 mile event drops his water bottle and you have to try and catch him to give it back at 6 minute miles 😅I didn’t know the video was still running! So funny 😆 🤘
Runners v riders
Well done everyone today you all smashed it with great sportsmanship ! Full results will follow soon 🙌🚴🏃♂️🚴♀️🏃♀️🙌🤘
Runners v riders
Just did 3 laps on the bike on the runners v riders route and that was hard work 😅 I personally can run it faster then I can ride it 🤘🏃♂️🚴♀️🚴🏃♀️
A cracking video here from Ben about runners v riders 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🚴🏃♂️🚴♀️🏃♀️🤘
Runners v riders
Spent the morning over at Friday woods checking and testing out the route with cam , is there a runner out there who can take this man on ? 😅💪🚴🏃♂️🏃♀️🚴♀️ and who will take home the trophies 🏆 this year ? Runners or riders ? The 1st 3 runners or riders will take home the cup 🏆sign up with the link below 👇
https://www.entrycentral.com/event/122747
A cracking little run this morning and checking out the runners v Riders event route it’s looking 👀 very dry over there at the moment but I am sure that will change ! 😅, then after the run it was back to some volunteering and doing my regular grass cutting at layer church , Craig’s events is always giving back ! If you would like to do the same we are still looking 👀 for some sponsorship for our runners v riders event 🙏🏃♀️🚴🚴♀️🏃♂️🤘you can enter the event with the link below 👇 
https://www.entrycentral.com/event/122747

It’s sad to see that this event will no longer exist! I have tabbed this event twice before in 2012 and 2015 and I won the canicross section in 2021 with my dog boo it’s been an awesome event, tough and hard but that’s what made it fun 💪🙌🤘🐶 another local event that will be missed ! Please make sure you support your local events in the way of offering to Marshall, or taking part, or you will lose them !
PARAS’10 UPDATE
After much careful thought, deliberation, and discussion, we have made the tough decision to suspend PARAS'10 Colchester indefinitely.
PARAS'10 was originally founded by WO1 JJ Wilson in 1982 and was hosted by The Parachute Regiment in Aldershot until 1993, when the regiment left. It was revived by Maj Sam McGrath in 2008 in Catterick, and, due to its huge success, was brought to the new home of The Parachute Regiment, Colchester, in 2012. Over the last 12 years, we have been incredibly fortunate to have had the support of our serving paratroopers for each Colchester event. These are soldiers who are often away on exercise until days before a race; filling in and submitting paperwork on our behalf whilst in foreign countries and also doing their day job; and who are frequently also being held at very high readiness to be deployed around the world should something happen.
This year, something did happen, and our soldiers were taken away from Colchester to perform their jobs in a humanitarian role overseas for the second time in three years. Our race, quite rightly, became a low priority and had to be cancelled; our focus then shifted to supporting those deployed soldiers and their families and to being there for them should they need us.
We have been lucky that our races have in the past managed to work around operational commitments, but in recent years, The Parachute Regiment's operational tempo and level of commitment has been steadily increasing and will continue to do so in the future. This jeopardises both the
🤣 when your just not feeling it 😆😅🙌🤘
What a totally awesome night of racing we had this evening for our knockout challenge event Everyone totally loved it , racing or watching ,it was a cracking night 🙌😎🏃♀️🏃♂️🤘
Overall winners:
Male:
1st Adrian Mussett - Colchester Harriers
2nd Ryan Day - Colchester Harriers
3rd Nate Filer - Colchester Harriers
Female:
1st Sam Bilbie - Springfield Striders
2nd Amanda Garwood
Age Category winners:
Male:
V40 Nate Filer - Colchester Harriers
V45 Doug McGillivray - Great Bentley
V50 Adrian Mussett - Colchester Harriers
V55 Andy Raynor - Colchester Harriers
V60 Clive Thomas - BLC
Female:
V45 Sam Bilbie - Springfield Striders
Here are the lap elimination results:
Lap 1 - Amanda Garwood and Thomas Moore
Fastest - Richard Heath 2:09
Lap 2 - Andy Raynor and Rob Reed
Fastest - Richard Heath 2:11
Lap 3 - Clive Thomas and Conrad Wigley
Fastest - Richard Heath 2:15
Lap 4 - Ben Rhys-Lewis and Mike Young
Fastest - Ryan Day 2:12
Lap 5 - James Manly and Richard Heath
Fastest - Tim Knights 2:13
Lap 6 - Simon Leggett and Matthew Illsley
Fastest - Tim Knights 2:11
Lap 7 - no one eliminated
Fastest - Jason Gunn 2:12
Lap 8 - Jay Waite and Sam Bilbie
Fastest - Jason Gunn 2:12
Lap 9 - Jon Battram and Joe Hughes
Fastest - Jason Gunn 2:10
Lap 10 - Tim Knights and Ryan Ward
Fastest - Ryan Day 2:08
Lap 11 - Craig Slocombe and Charlie Keitch
Fastest - Jason Gunn 2:11
Lap 12 - James Foot and Jason Gunn
Fastest - Adrian Mussett 1:54
Lap 13 - Doug McGillivray
Fastest - Adrian Mussett 1:57
Lap 14 - Nate Filer
Fastest - Adrian Mussett 1:51
Lap 15 - Ryan Day
Fastest - Adrian Mussett 1:49
OVERALL WINNER - ADRIAN MUSSETT WITH THE FINAL AND FASTEST LAP OF THE EVENING IN 1:49
Awesome running everyone you all totally smashed it 🤘🤘🤘x
A great day watching , night of the 10k pb’s in London, winner of our Dave Wrights 15 mile Jack was taking part today and the winner of Colchester10k ash was taking part along with another running legend from colchester Adrain mussett 🙌🏃♂️🏃♀️🙌🤘
We are taking the village scarecrow competition, very seriously 😆and going for the win 🏆😅🏃♂️🏃♀️up the runners 🤘
The donkey & fox 🦊 want to make our kids fun run as safe and fun as possible so last night we took the time to adopt and make our kids medals 🥇 a little bit safer with a release in them 🙌 to be fair this was Rachel’s idea 💡 and a very good one 🤘x

A little video of runners v Riders from Ben’s TikTok ,Ben was our 1st 🥇 runner home 🙌🏃♂️with a cracking little video 🤘
Awesome work today everyone 🤘🚴🏃♀️🏃♂️🚴♀️🙌 everyone smashed it and totally loved it ! We have had so many messages saying how great it was ,big thanks again to our event sponsor future bikes 🤘all the kids received medals and it was free entry for all under 17 and thanks to future bikes we had 1st 🥇 place trophies for our runners and riders, enjoy the video ,full results to follow soon ! And thanks again to all my amazing Marshalls x




Checking out the runners v riders route this morning and cam showing us how not to do it 🤣😅😂🚴🤘🙌
Got back down to Friday woods today sorting the kids route out and the main event route ! Number’s & trophies and medals are all ordered ! With big thanks to future bike’s who sponsored our trophies 🏆 so this year not only will runners & riders be racing each other for the markham cup 🏆 1st 6 riders or 1st 6 runners will win this team prize ! We also have the overall winner shield ! + a trophy each for 1st female runner ! 1st female rider ! 1st male rider ! And 1st male runner! Also I have just ordered 30 medals 🏅 for the kids event ! And we don’t even charge anything for the kids ,none of this would of been possible without the sponsorship from future bikes ! 🙌👏🤘we will still need help with marshalling on the day so please let me know if you can help out ? And if you haven’t signed up yet do so with the link below 👇 it’s only £6:50 and this just covers our costs ! Remember guys this is a charity event and it would be great if we could make a little bit for charity too , so please help and give if you can for this totally awesome event with so much history to it ! 🚴🏃♂️🚴♀️🏃♀️🙌🤘…………….
https://www.entrycentral.com/event/118852