{"id":551885,"date":"2026-04-26T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551885\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:06:09","slug":"maldon-mud-race-2026-creates-fundraising-fun-on-river-blackwater-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551885\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldon Mud Race 2026 creates fundraising fun on River Blackwater &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Event chairman says race was &#8216;fantastic&#8217;published at 16:22 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:22 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brian Farrington, chairman of the Maldon Mud Race, says this year&#8217;s event has been &#8220;absolutely fantastic&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The weather&#8217;s been brilliant, and everybody survived, which is always our main concern,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The elites race after the main event was a success, he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think they thought it was easy &#8217;til they did it, then they realised. It was a bit of an experiment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll definitely do it again and add some more difficulties next time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More difficulties?? Just what they need!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man in hi vis smiles at the camera\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d547ccd-facc-44c4-9a51-0686585c22ab.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1179\" height=\"850\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Event chairman says race was &#8216;fantastic&#8217;published at 16:22 BST 16:22 BST Brian Farrington, chairman of the Maldon Mud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-551885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}