TIPTREE retained fourth place in Pool B of the 53-12 cross-country league following the third race in the series at Harwich.

In the ladies’ race, Lyndsey Rollerkite finished 49th, Abigail Morgan 75th, Zoe Gould 76th and Dawn Shilling 85th to take fifth place in the team event.

The men’s team finished fourth with James Haskey-Jones 39th, Craig Dawson 40th, Andrew Conway 60th, Simon Morgan 69th, Gary Perryman 94th, Malcolm Bailey 134th, Rob Hadgraft 147th and Jeff Fairfull 162nd.

Tom Rehal took second place in the junior race and was the first under-15 boy.

Robin Matthews was 21st and Georgina Haskey-Jones 44th.

In local Parkruns, Gary Perryman broke his personal best with a run of 21m 8s at the Colchester event.

Malcolm Bailey was first V55 at the Maldon Prom Parkrun with a time of 24m 4s.

Tracy Russell improved her personal best to 25m 27s and Roger Duffield finished in 29m 48s.

Andrew Conway placed fourth at Great Notley with a run of 19m 51s.

At Chelmsford, Anthony Knight finished in 26m 23s. Finlay Newman ran 33m 10s and Vicky Knight 33m 11s.

Earlier, at the Search for Santa night trail, Craig Dawson took seventh place in 1h 32m 2s.

Simon and Abigail Morgan finished in 1h 45m 19s.