JAMES Haskey-Jones took second spot for Tiptree Road Runners at the Maldon Prom Parkrun.
He clocked a time of 19 minutes and 48 seconds and was followed by Jonathan Finch, in 21m 49s.
Joanne Roblin finished in 30m 22s, Lynne Baines in 30m 24s and Dawn Shilling in 30m 38s.
Simon Morgan finished the Great Notley Parkrun in 21m 24s, with Abigail Morgan running 26m 56s.
Andrew Conway finished the Harlow Parkrun in 20m 32s to take fourth place.
Anthony Knight and Finlay Newman ran the Brentwood Parkrun, a hilly course in South Weald Country Park.
They finished in 34m 59s.
Earlier, the club presented ten-year-old Tom Miller, of Langford, with a £200 cheque, part of the profits from the annual Tiptree ten-mile race.
Tom’s burning ambition is to compete in wheelchair racing at a future Paralympics.
He was born three and a half months prematurely and suffers from cerebral palsy, but is a keen racer who currently trains at Harlow with older competitors.
He hopes to obtain a proper racing wheelchair thanks to donations like this one.
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