Snowdonia MarathonHere's how RW members rated this race in the past (450 votes). 2009 race reviewed by: hamrag
 | | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 20% |
In short: Fantastic race
In full: Been wanting to do Snowdon for yonks and it didn't let me down. The wind and rain added to the occasion and to be honest I was glad it was so bad, made it the challenge it deserves to be. Brilliant race. Can,t wait to do it all again...
Date of review: October 25, 2009
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2009 race reviewed by: mr f
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Stunning, as always
In full: My 6th Snowdonia in as many years, a truly epic race. Not even the horrendous weather can dampen the spirits of the race. I'll be back for 7th year without doubt.
Brilliant
Date of review: October 25, 2009
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2009 race reviewed by: Gozo
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Hilly, tough, windy, rainy - but great fun!
In full: A great marathon. Friendly marshalls, great scenery and good pockets of supporters. Long wait in the rain for the buses to take us to the start - glad I had my bin bag on! Will definitely be back next year.
Date of review: October 25, 2009
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2009 race reviewed by: rumhelka
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 40% |
In short: Spectactularly stunning, gorgeous race.
In full: Beautiful scenery, great camaraderie, lovely marshalls, great support from the locals despite the pouring rain. Really well organised.
Date of review: October 25, 2009
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2009 race reviewed by: Mike Hawes
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Wet windy wild and hilly
In full: Torrential rain and almost gale force winds made this marathon a real challenge, lotas of hills and tricky downhills made it a real test for the legs.
Great fun!
Date of review: October 25, 2009
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2009 race reviewed by: Fart in Daps
| | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Tough, Wet and Windy.
In full: An absolute fantastic race the weather conditions just added to the event. It's worth doing just for the scenery.
The start was delayed and there was a lot of hanging around but this wasn't a magor problem as long as you dressed for the occasion but once we got going the little hill that was in front of us took our mind of it. Also a great finish coming into Llanberis the support was superb.
Look forward to watching the coverage on S4C tonight, I'm the one in blue.
Date of review: October 25, 2009
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2009 race reviewed by: George C
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 20% |
In short: A hard, hilly, tough marathon
In full: A wet and windy day in llanberis!Had to wait nearly 1 hour in the rain,then delayed start with no shelter! Not a good start. A very hard course with pretty bad weather but hey we're in North Wales what do you expect! A great marathon to run if you like to test yourself, managed 3.47 so Im happy with that. Probably see you next year if Ive recovered!
Date of review: October 24, 2009
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2008 race reviewed by: Benaldo
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 20% |
In short: tough race very hard in places, great local people will train harder for 2009. slower than my first attempt didnt help getting blown over a couple of time on way do grassy bit at the end, still love it tho
Date of review: April 7, 2009
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2007 race reviewed by: Benaldo
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 20% |
In short: cracking race weather very intresting first marathon this was fantastic race coming back every year
Date of review: April 7, 2009
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2008 race reviewed by: russell mcnee
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: tough race very hard in places, great local people will train harder for 2009
Date of review: January 4, 2009
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