Salisbury Trail 5-4-3-2-1 Marathon  Here's how RW members rated this race (238 votes). 2012 race reviewed by: smart mart
 | | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Delightful
In full: Thought about going to London to watch the mens olympic marathon, but then found this and decided its better to do something than watch something. Great venue, organisation, friendliness etc. A couple more markers in the last mile of the marathon would be useful - I clocked the marathon at 26.7 and that last bit was a killer! Overall not too bad though compared to wenlock over the edge and malvern midsummer madness, its challenging but not a killer.
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: SideBurn
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Great race, great location, great cause, great route, great organisation; need I go on?
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Martin Matthews 4
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Great selection of distances; well organized; wonderful scenery
In full: Did the 20k last year and chose this event for my first 50k this year. Hope to be back next year for one of the events. Well organized with plenty of water stations, many with food in a variety of forms (eg, jelly babies, fruit, cake). Generally very well marked route, but maybe more markers needed for the final mile through town from the cathedral? No real PB potential due to the approx distances and undulating nature of the course, but a very enjoyable run with a distance to suit everyone.
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: dalli
| | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: great organisation
In full: a good well organised race ,very well marked no need for map or directions plenty of checkpoints aswell, i did get some strange looks running through the town center at the end though !!
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: N Le-Faye
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Very well organised, certainly a tough course
In full: This was an excellent example of a well-organised trail race. The venue was ideal, offering plenty of parking and toilets and a clear finish. Very well organised, with no glitches despite the numerous permutations of distances and walkers vs runners. Plenty of checkpoints with water and squash and some with food etc helped us all get round. The course was very scenic but surprisingly hilly, but was very clearly signed, you simply don't need the route description at all. The only annoying bit was going through the centre of Salisbury, dodging wandering tourists and unexpected traffic right at the end but I don't think that that was avoidable given the route and it was literally only the last half mile. Thanks very much to the organisers, yet another post-olympic reminder of how well-run volunteer events can be
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: naomi smith 8
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: lovely route, well organised, great food at all stops, well signed really enjoyable
In full: Lovely scenery, Mars bars, cakes, biscuits, fruit and drinks at all stops, well sign posted, very welcoming, very impressed and nice post race massage to bootm am going back next year for the ultra
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Brendan Weekes
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Fun, but lonely at the back
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Jane Stedman
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Superb organisation, route and friendliness
In full: Amazingly well organised and very slick - easy parking, registering, start and finish, with plenty of loos, massage if wanted and food and live music. Party atmosphere and very friendly - both runners and marshalls. Lovely runningn through castle estate and past cathedral but felt alittle lost in town centre and along river right at the end as signs appeared to dry up abit? - maybe I was just so tired by then, I didnt see them?! Overall. an excellent day out for everyone - a great charity and a definite to do again. Thank you!
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Rachel Cole 9
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In full: First ever half marathon. a good mix of trail and road and wonderful running through the Longford castle estate and past the cathedral.My body was only prepared to run the 13.1 but we had been warned that it may be longer and it was.13.4.Now i know what to expect I'll be back for more
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: Grayster H
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Continues to be excellent. 42k
In full: These firefighters know how to organise a good running event. Haven’t run the 54321 since 2009 but it is still excellent. Pre-race organisation at the fire station is exceptionally smooth. Start well organised. Beautiful course. There is quite a lot on the road/hard track and I was glad I hadn’t bothered with my trail shoes (although I did start to wonder on the slippery clay by Old Sarum near the start). The 42k course is pretty challenging. Fairly undulating for the first 20 miles with a big big climb around 19ish. The last 6 are downhill or flat which makes for a fast finish if your legs are still up to it. Great last 2 through the city centre passing the cathedral and the tourists (who looked a bit bewildered). Feed stations were well stocked and got better as you went around. Water, orange/lemon squash, biscuits, bananas, jelly babies and oranges. I must give special mention about the fruit cake – moist and delicious like last time! Couldn’t disagree more about another runner’s comments about other participants not being friendly – I had a few chats with different people around the course. Seemed pretty social to me. This really is a great event with a nice finish with a decent party atmosphere. Easy parking, easy leaving. I would ask for some marshalling in the city centre and on the river path where we had to cross roads – gets a bit harder when you’ve been running for 4 hours plus!
Date of review: August 13, 2012
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