Barns Green Half MarathonHere's how RW members rated this race (261 votes). 2012 race reviewed by: Fiona Belton
 | | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: lovely well organised friendly scenic race
In full: More undulating than I expected, band at Christ's Hopital was something special! V friendly village atmosphere.
Date of review: October 1, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Nick Plant
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Well organised and pretty scenary
In full: A special mention has to go the the Christ's Hospital band - I don't think I have every had such a large band play as I ran before, not even in big city marathons - many thanks
Date of review: October 1, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: SurreyChick
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | No | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Lovely scenery, great support, ish good bag
In full: Wish I'd known beforehand how undulating the course was, I'd been led to believe it was flat other than a hill at 10 miles so that wasn't the case. Loved the support at Christs School - felt like I was running in the olympics :-)
Date of review: October 1, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Hermione
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | No | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Half Marathons are not my thing, but this is a good one!
In full: Friendly local race in spite of large entrance number. Loved the support of those living along the route, especially those supplying jelly babies. I agree that it would be great to have these at some of the water stations. The second loop is my favourite, but it was a challenge for me this time, in spite of good training...started fast again...when will I learn?! Only not doing it again, because I prefer to stick to 10ks
Date of review: September 30, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Deepblue
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Not Half Bad!!
In full: Very enjoyable event, the course starts off nice and easy, felt like mostly down hill, although a wee bit crowded for the first couple of miles, good support in places esp through christ's hospital. Gets a bit tougher second half, felt like uphill most of the way, or that could just be me (hills are my nemises)I'll be back!!
Date of review: September 30, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: James Sorbie
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Loved it!
In full: This was my third Half Marathon and the easiest yet. As previous reviewers have said, there are undulations but no killer hills. Every hill gives you back a down hill (actually, I felt like I ran the down hills first then had to make up for it with a slight up hill!). The scenery is great on country roads and this year we had great weather. A highlight was the venture through Christ's Hospital with a marching band and some very lovely supportive kids. It was quite early in the race but I felt great with their uplift. Everything runs smoothly and works well. I have the smallest gripe ever that the official race programme purported to list every entrant in the race, but terminated after Pa in the alphabet. With a surname beginning with S I was a little bit sad my name wasn't in it. Bit of a screw up but every other aspect was great. Loved receiving a silver medal for finishing in the top 300 and set myself a PB (4 minutes quicker than before). You can definitely set a PB on this gently undulating course.
Date of review: September 30, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Spiggot
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A great run
In full: Really enjoyed this race; smooth organisation, interesting undulating course, good support and warm atmosphere. A bit slow to get chip results out (assume there will be chip results?)
Date of review: September 30, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Bexie
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In full: I really enjoyed this race - it was well organised and the support was great all the way round. Quite undulating but this made it a little more interesting. The only thing would be to have water bottles rather than cups as they are always impossible to drink out of!
Date of review: September 30, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Sarah Sutton 2
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Great race. Lots of support and friendly atmosphere.
In full: Well-marshalled race, with fantastic support in a lovely setting. Hills not too severe. Only gripe would have to be the queue for the ladies loo before the race.
Date of review: September 30, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Justin Showell
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Well done Barns Green!
In full: After a 3 year absence, I was very happy to do this race again. Great running through the school with the support and the band, and with the support all around the course. I was very pleased to find the Kitkat in the goody bag!!
Date of review: September 30, 2012
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