Essex Summer Midweek Series 2025
The Essex Summer Midweek Series will again be run in 2025. This will consist of 8 evening O events. Terrain will be a mixture of urban streets, parks and woodland, footpaths and trails.
Series flyer.
Points will be awarded based on finishing times adjusted using an age/gender handicap system. Each missed or incorrect control will incur a 5 minutes penalty. Best 6 results from the series will count. On-the-night bonus of 15 points per event for those running on the night, opposed to MapRun catchup. 5 min penalty for Anytime. A second run on any particular course will not count for scoring purposes.
Full results will be emailed and published on the SOS and HAVOC websites.
Entry fees, per event Senior (member) £4, Senior (non-member) £5, Junior £2
Golden Ticket (entry to all events in the series) - Senior (member) £22, Senior (non-member) £28, Junior £11
Note: This series will be using the latest version of the MapRun software, to enable use of features and scoring that have been introduced. Therefore, if you are not using the latest version of the software, please update to ensure that there are no issues when it comes to the event.
Links to details/results for the events are shown in the table below.
Essex Summer Midweek Series 2025
| Date | Club | Location | Planner | Results | Report | Anytime Map | Anytime Instructions |
| Wed Apr 16 | SOS | Great Notley | Lyn & Colin West | Results | Report | ||
| Wed Apr 30 | HAVOC | Norsey Wood, Billericay | David Float |
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| Wed May 14 | SOS | Danbury Common | Kevin Machin |
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| Wed May 28 | HAVOC | Stock | Seb Parris |
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| Wed Jun 11 | SOS | Rayne (TBC) | Eddie Banks |
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| Wed Jun 25 | HAVOC | Harold Wood | Josh Jenner |
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| Wed Jul 9 | SOS | Colchester | John Allen & Tim Hull |
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| Wed Jul 23 | HAVOC | Thorndon | Colin Jackson |
Guidelines for each event:
- Short (c3-3.5km straight line) and Long (c5-6km straight line) or another format if it works better for an area (e.g. Short and Long or Combined Score)
- Starts from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, courses close 9pm
- Start location should be a pub or similar
- If possible, events are set up on MapRun to allow for on the night analysis, as well as Anytime Catch up for those not able to attend on the night
- As the events will take place in the light summer evenings, more use of parks, woods, footpaths and trails are anticipated, alongside sections of urban street running.
- Usual format of fire hydrants, supplemented by other road furniture, and/or homemade hydrant signs where courses would benefit from not only using hydrants (to increase route choice for example).
Defending champions from 2024 are:
Short Course
| First | Colin Jackson |
| Second | Alan Sibthorp |
| Third | Barbara Beckett |
Long Course
| First | Paul Beckett |
| Second | Jackie Sibthorp |
| Third |
Chris Prince |