This week’s Parish Notices were presented by Mark Lawes

Welcome all! We have several guests joining group 2 this evening – Martin, Ruth, and Lily. Lily is joining us for her second week as a guest. Please give them all a big TRR welcome!

Essex Trail Events – Dark Rose

We had four members out on the 5.5 mile narrated self-navigation trail.

  • Martin and Stuart, 00:58:41, “Muddy and wet, followed by cottage pie. Highlight was going straight through the ford!”
  • Katie Rawlinson, 01:05:47, “My first trail event in the dark!!”
  • Stacy Hember, 01:18:48, “Lovely route, fell over on the road, got lost following someone, but lovely cottage pie at the end!”

Saturday parkrun Results

Great Notley parkrun

  • Dave Cassin, 00:28:18, “Big puddles and some mud. Double milestone – 100th parkrun & V25 for pacing 28 mins.”

Maldon Prom parkrun

  • Caroline Corney, 00:28:13, “Super fun as always! XC warm up!”
  • Andrew Vickers, 00:28:53
  • Stacy Hember, 00:30:52, “It didn’t rain!”
  • Annabel Marriott, 00:42:05, “New dog hindered PB”

Markshall Estate parkrun

  • Len Marten, “Provided Car Park Marshal, Funnel Manager and filmed the new course as they switched”
  • Martin Holtham-Payne, 00:25:15, “Nice to try out the new route!”

Telford parkrun

  • Aaron Graves, 00:17:54

Kesgrave parkrun

  • Simon Gallagher, 00:24:28

For a complete list of members of Tiptree Road Runners who participated at a parkrun on 2026-02-07, click here to view the results on the parkrun website. If you ran a parkrun recently and your name isn’t showing on the parkrun club results, check your parkrun profile and make sure you add Tiptree Road Runners as your club.

Essex XC League

Last Sunday was race 5, the final race of the Essex XC League season. Unfortunately we were one lady and one man down from fielding complete teams. Our ladies team finished second in Division 2 on the day, which secure their place in Division 2 again for next season. And our men’s team finished sixth in Division 2 on the day, with an overall finish position of sixth for the season.

Well done to anyone that has run an Essex League XC race this season. Thank you!

Ladies Results

  • Rowena, position 31, “First TRR, 30th woman”
  • Sally, position 77
  • Caroline Corney, position 106, “That was a tough course, but a lot better this time”

Men’s Results

  • Glen Head, position 116
  • Mark Lawes, position 137
  • Rob King, position 156
  • Edward Skinner, position 187
  • Steve Hargreaves, position 190

The Essex XC League website has been updated with all the latest results.

Cold Norton 10k Trail

  • Zoe Bardell, 01:49:40, “Lovely to see Zoe back running, very muddy!”

Cold Norton Half Marathon Trail

  • Bob Bardell, 02:20:05, “7th overall, tough race just happy to still be running”
  • Len Marten, 03:38:56, “Ran with Jane Roach. Extremely muddy and very wet course. Running conditions were harder than the Benfleet 15!”

Rochford Half Marathon

  • Dave Cassin, 01:56:32 (PB & Bronze Standard), “Great race. Lovely course. Perfect conditions. 3 mins off my previous PB and a bronze standard.”
  • Stacy Hember, 02:15:58, “Not a bad route, potential for a PB but not enough loos at the start!”
  • Clare Haylock, 02:26:00, “Wow what a race really enjoyed that apart from last 1.5 mile super proud of all TRR gang today.”
  • Alex Hadley, 02:27:26, “Trotters quite sore, but feel chuffed to have got round with lots of lovely encouragement from Clare.”

Training This Thursday

There is no Thursday training as we have a track session at Braintree Leisure Centre on Friday evening. Check out the Track Training WhatsApp group for poll and session details. The session will be lead by Rob.

Upcoming Events

This Sunday is race 4 of the NESS XC League at Gosfield School. The Juniors race starst at 10:00 and the adults race at 10.45am. The adjusted route is approximately 5 miles. More details on our Cross Country page on the TRR website.

Runner of the Month – January 2026

Ladies Winner

Difficult to know where to start with this lady, but she is a shining beacon of everything that this club stands for. Inclusive, encouraging, super friendly, supportive, warm, funny, kind, excitable and very, very loud! Everybody loves her and has, at some point, been on the receiving end of one of her ‘super’ hugs! But it’s not just her nature that has earned her our nomination. After recently transitioning into G3, she has shown that with hard work and commitment to training, she can turn this into some fantastic results. A PB and silver standard at Maldon Parkrun on New Year’s Day, started the year as she means to go on and (although technically February) she also went on to PB at Bentley half marathon on the 1st Feb and secured a brilliant age category 4th place. We are beyond thrilled (and we think everyone else will be). Our ROM is Anna Taylor!

Men’s Winner

Sometimes we forget the effort some people put into the running community in general, and parkrun and TRR in particular, because that is what they always do. This runner started the New Year posting a decent parkrun time and two days later, at the same parkrun, paced a lady runner to her first sub 32 minute parkrun. Pacing is not as easy as it looks (as most of us know), so a margin of 8 seconds is a decent one. A week later, this runner ran their fastest time for a number of years, testament to their efforts in training and maintaining a gradual and coordinated weight loss programme. More parkruns as RD, competing in both Benfleet 15 and at NESS XC on 25 January completed their achievements, but for good measure, there was a step up to G2 to run one of their sessions as RL. Our male Runner of the Month for January is the “Awesome” Len Marten.