Maldon Mud Race

Hundreds of people have spent their bank holiday weekend scrambling though 400-yards of foul-smelling muck for the annual Maldon Mud Race. The 300 competitors, many wearing fancy dress, ran, crawled and scrabbled across the thick black mud of the River Blackwater in Essex at low tide and back yesterday. Each year competitors attempt to dash across the bed of the river near Maldon, and luckily this year the sun was out to keep the mud-racers warm