If your New Year resolution was to keep off some of those unwanted Christmas pounds then why not carry out your promise and sign up for the annual Ridley's Great Baddow Charity Races?

For the past 18 years Chelmsford Mildmay Rotary Club has organised an annual racing event to raise funds for their charities, and this year's races are due to take place at Great Baddow Recreation Grounds on May 23 at approximately 11am.

Sponsored by Ridley's Brewery and the Essex Chronicle, this year's event will include both a 10-mile race and a two-mile fun run, and the Rotary Club is hoping to attract a crowd larger than 2003's total of 4,500 people.

The 10-mile race will incorporate the AAA's Essex 10-mile Championships. The longer of the two runs has also been awarded the prestigious BARR gold status which is the highest accolade for road running events.

Because of this outstanding award in previous years, the Rotary Club are expecting a very high standard of athletes to be running this year, although they rely on the runners to enter for charity sponsorship.

Although all runners who finish the races will receive a medal to congratulate them, main prizes will be awarded for the winners of both the 10-mile and the two-mile races.

Published Tuesday January 6, 2004

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