Tiptree Road Runners' Jim Slater was first home for the club at the Brandon half-marathon.

Slater finished in one hour 43 minutes and 19 seconds at the race, held on an off-road course through Thetford Forest, which was remarkably dry following the torrential rain the previous day. He was followed in by Kevin Bownes in 1h 44m.

Paul Shewbridge, in his first run on the course, finished in 1h 49m 47s, with Carolyn Bownes and Barry Dobson running 1h 54m 20s and Ian Linton completing the team in 1h 58m.

Competitors at the Hatfield Broad Oak 10K, held on the same day, faced much worse wet and windy conditions.

However, Jamie Fairful set a new personal best of 44m 58s.

Mark Brewer was first home for the club with a strong run in 40m 34s, followed by Ted Skinner in 42m 58s.

Roger Duffield finished in 47m 04s, with Rob Hadgraft completing the course in 49m 02s.

At the 6.7-mile Donkey Doings trail race at Witham, Keith Pickles made a welcome return after a long and frustrating period of injury to finish in 66m 12s, with Duffield running 67m 16s.

Bownes and Dobson finished in 91m 25s.

At the Return of the Magnificent Seven trail race, Duffield finished in 1h 15m 23s, with Bownes and Dobson completing the course in 1h 32m 10s.

At the first of the 2008 Friday Five series at Ipswich, Dave Comish was first home for the club in 32m 00, Duffield ran 38m 07s and Mark Mckenzie-Bell finished in 44m 45s.

Duffield completed a busy ten days of racing with a silver medal in the V65 category at the Eastern Vets Five-Mile Championship at Reach in Cambridgeshire, finishing the race in 37m 32s.

Nick Reynolds made light of the hills at the Tilty Hilly Five near Dunmow to finish 12th with a run of 30m 35s.

Mark Brewer finished in 31m 33s, with Comish completing his second five-mile race of the weekend in 31m 46s.

Martin Avent continued his good run of current form with a time of 34m 50s, while Slater's run of 36m 31s was good enough to take first place in the V60 category.

Hadgraft ran 37m 20s, with Dobson and Bownes finishing in 41m 44s.