HALSTEAD Road Runners' Karl Hillman raced to a new personal best at the High Easter ten-kilometre road race.

Running strongly from the start, Hillman finished in an impressive time of 47 minutes 44 seconds.

Halstead's Dan Hollinshead took on the Maldon 5km Park Run.

The fast picturesque course took him just 21m 12s to complete as he finished 17th out of 269 runners.