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2011 race reviewed by: Tim Woodman 2
 | | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 40% |
In short: Very well organised race - a great start to the day
In full: Congratulations to the organisers on a superb race. Plenty of marshals, good parking and mini race village (including burger van), a good goody bag, excellent and challenging route (I disagree about the hills, by the last one I was tuckered in, but that's just me!).
No mile markers would be seen as a problem for some, but its an off road race so that's what you get (and I'd rather have none, than some, but not all...) If you need to know how far you've gone invest in a GPS.
Cracking event, and could cope with many more runners so spread the word for next time.
Date of review: October 24, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: Rhys Henderson 2
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: what a find in the New Forest
In full: The run was organised like clockwork. Nice runners village which made you feel very welcome. Loved the route, all off road and on forest trails and reasonably hard for a run in the south of the country.Great bunch of marshalls, they even went to the trouble to shout your name out as you went past. For a small event I thought the goodie bag was tops........lots of other events could learn from the nice little touches.
Date of review: October 23, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: ElBoracho
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Lovely course, excellent marshalling, great event
In full: This is must-do race for any runner of whatever capacity. All off-road on easy tracks and only a few mildly challenging climbs. Very well marked and with lots of encouragement from very friendly marshalls, this is a race not to be missed on the calendar! Nice mini 'race village' adds to the sense of great organisation and thought. A nice goodie bag adds to the overall enjoyment of this race. I'll certainly be recommending it and will do it again. A very nice touch was that several marshalls had a list of entrants names and called these out as they passed by en-route. Very encouraging.
The only addition to complete this race would be some distance markers on the course. Not a major problem though as the course map is displayed at race HQ and is available on the website.
Many thanks to all those involved in the organisation for making this a wonderful morning out in a lovely part of the country. Long may this event continue.
Date of review: October 23, 2011
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