Maldon Mud Race - December 2009

Posted: December 29, 2009 
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The Maldon Mud Race now attracts competitors from all over the world who run, swim, wade and crawl their way round the knee deep black stinking sticky mud course. More than 250 runners took part in the annual mud race at Maldon, Essex. Racers must cross the mouth of the River Blackwater at low tide - a distance of about 500 yards. The event started in 1970 when regulars of the Queen’s Head pub ran across the river to drink from a barrel of beer and then back to be hosed down by the landlady