Arthur Whiston 5 Mile

Colchester Garrison Track, Circular Road North, Colchester, CO2 7SZ

Overall Rating

4.7/ 5

22 reviews
Would you recommend it to others? Yes
How did you rate the scenery? 4/5
How did you rate the atmosphere? 5/5
How did you rate the organisation? 5/5
Do you think this was friendly to beginners? Yes

Anonymous

An enjoyable friendly run

A geeat way to remember Arthur. Well organised wirh lots of lovely marshals/helpers. A flat route for all abilities, flat makung it fast for the experienced runner. Well done everyone involved. I think Arthur would have liked the event. The only I noriced that was omitted that whilst a nice speech was made about Arthur should the runners have had a chance to express themselves with a round of applause?

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025

Excellent organisation, wonderful encouragement from all marshals. Friendly, easy parking, hard to find any negatives. Hopefully will become and annual event! A fitting tribute to Arthur.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Sue Barrowclough

Excellent

An excellent event. Very well organised, regular emails regarding the day. The course was very well signed, no chance of going wrong as so many marshals on the course giving directions and with their amazing support made it a great event. Arthur would have been chuffed with it all. Well done Colchester Harriers.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Martin Claydon

A fantastic event, well organised and marshalled with lots of smiling faces and encouragement.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Anonymous

A brilliantly organised race and the best Marshalls too. Loved it

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Anonymous

A fantastic tribute to Arthur

This was a brilliant event. Great atmosphere among the runners and a real sense of community. The course was really good and so well marshalled - I don’t think I have ever seen so many marshals on a race before and they were all very supportive.
Really well organised and the location was perfect. I really hope this becomes an annual tribute to a great man.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Bruce Emerson

Thank you for a great tribute to Arthur - he would have loved it!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Rachel Sadler

Lovely tribute to our friend Arthur

Really enjoyable race which was very well organised. Parking was very easy. Lots of lovely marshals and Volunteers! A really lovely community feel in honour of our friend Arthur who was so highly thought of by all that knew him.

Just a few suggestions :-
A tshirt or medal option would have been appreciated. There were T-shirts for sale but unfortunately none small enough to fit me otherwise I would’ve purchased one.

The age categories on the results page did not reflect the age category results for the trophies. Perhaps this can be easily corrected? Us runners love stats!

It would’ve been nice to have a photographer out on the course or at the finish line.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Mark Crittenden

Brilliant run in memory of Arthur. All marshal were so supportive

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Laura Shewbridge

Brilliant route, so well marshalled and amazing sense of running community!

Very well organised. Plus the Marshalls were great - encouraging and so many along the route. 10/10 let’s hope they hold this again next year. Needs to become an official race in the calendar!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Chris Stevenson

A superb runner friendly event

The results are available for runners in different age categories but there is something wrong as the five year categories eg V45, V55, V65 have just a couple of runners listed! The awards were in 10 year categories is v40, v50, v60 so runners should be categorised the same way. By way of an example myself, Dave Weight and Peter Higgins are all over 65 but are in the v60. If you want to have a v65 category then we should be in that one!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Ian Cook

For the price, would of expected a medal. Apart that was a brilliant day

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Duane Howard

Arthur would have been proud!

Thanks so much for a great event. Clearly a lot of effort had gone into ensuring that everything went smoothly. Fast, flat course with excellent backup and encouragement from marshalls. Informative email communication providing full details in good time ahead of the event. Hard to find fault but, if I had to, it would be great to add a baggage storage facility. Am hoping that this becomes a popular, regular event.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
BELINDA PALMER-BARNES

Lots of Marshall’s so knew exactly where to go. Lovely in Memory of Arthur

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Debra Porter

Enjoyable, very well marshalled course.

On learning of Arthur’s respect for the environment, was rather disappointed to see plastic bottles of water used and no snack option for vegans at the finish.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Ian Bown

Superbly organised event . Perfect way to remember Arthur

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Lisa Oldman

Fantastic event and very fitting for our King Arthur

Would have liked a medal with his face on or a t-shirt… the Essex Wildlife ones were nice but £30 was a lot!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Jim Holland

A wonderful race

A well organised event with excellent marshalling.
From the outside looking in, not being from Colchester, you could tell how highly regarded and loved Arthur was.
Will definitely come again next year.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Amber Fox-Hammond

Fantastic way to remember a dear friend doing what he loved best

Would be still nice to receive a participation medal especially for the price of the event.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025
Thomas Konarzewski

Very friendly

Great fun event, really well organised and super fun.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Jul 2025