L1310K 10KHere's how RW members rated this race in the past (203 votes). 2006 race reviewed by: John McCarthy 2
 | | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Very well organised
Date of review: October 8, 2006
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2005 race reviewed by: Birdy B
| | Overall score | | 20% | | Would you do it again? | | No | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 20% | | Organisation | | 20% | | Value | | 20% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 20% |
In short: Was once a great road race this, now its been shoved in a local park full of potholes!
Date of review: October 4, 2006
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2005 race reviewed by: Andy Whalley
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Excellent get down there Sunday 8th October
Date of review: October 2, 2006
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2005 race reviewed by: John Taylor 21
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: forget the estimated time markers at the start, just get near the front or suffer!!
Date of review: September 2, 2006
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2005 race reviewed by: Baldy68
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: My first 10k, 48mins which was a bonus, definately doing again this year
Date of review: July 16, 2006
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2005 race reviewed by: Libby Farmer
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Not enough toilets, late to start line. As result held up, course very narrow in places
Date of review: October 18, 2005
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2005 race reviewed by: Jonny 2
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: My first 10K race. I really enjoyed it.
Date of review: October 18, 2005
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2005 race reviewed by: Jeremy Gold
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Fast course with good chance of PB time.
In full: I can uderstand people not being happy about baggage tent etc. but I thoroughly enjoyed the race. The course was flat and completely traffic free which is a bonus. I was lucky enough to get to the turn early and avoid the crowd and to be honest coming from London it is a pleasure to run along the waterfront road in Liverpool. When you run on a course with traffic you may start to appreciate a traffic free course. But yes as I said I can understand people being unhappy.
Date of review: October 15, 2005
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2005 race reviewed by: Holly Metcalfe
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Not much fun - out and back on a dull course with cones in the way!
Date of review: October 14, 2005
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2005 race reviewed by: Along For The Ride
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Loved it.
In full: ok ok… so yes, it could have been more scenic, yes the start/finish line could have been explained to the runners a few more times, yes the queue to the baggage was long, but in defence of the organisers and playing devils advocate:
1) there wasn't a formal queue to collect the goody bag/, medal from. I watched this form up, the way the British do (ooo we love forming queues)... There were 4 vans with differing sizes of t-shirts, but the approach from the road meant people started queueing at the first van, before being directed to successive vans for there particular t-shirt size.
2) the scanning of tags by a hand wand, after the finish line is a safety measure, to ensure every tag is recorded. In theory, at least, all tags will be recorded by the cable running over the finish line, however (going by the web site of the company providing the timing facilities) it seems nothing is 100% fool-proof. I approached a man with a hand scanner and asked him to scan me to be 100% sure it had logged me finishing the race.
3) to have had the turn-around going around the entire roundabout would have meant having the finish line moved. I guess the constraints for setting out the course, were that the start/end had to be in the area it was. Potentially the extra distance around the roundabout would have put the start/finish line out onto the road infront of the Porsche dealers?
Nice medal and t-shirt.
Date of review: October 14, 2005
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