Maldon Mud Race

The Maldon Mud Race started when about twenty people made a mad dash across the muddy river bed to a bar on the Saltings, drank a pint of beer and dashed back. These days the race no longer involves the beer drinking and has grown and re-located to Promenade Park in Maldon. Here 300 fund-raising competitors make the 400 metre dash across the Blackwater river and back, supported by an audience of 15,000 people along the river bank.