St Albans Review Half-MarathonHere's how RW members rated this race (397 votes). 2006 race reviewed by: MudBlood
 | | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Preferred the new route to the old one, although I would say hillier.
In full: Can't say much apart from excellent organisation and not much you can do about the heat. Plenty of water provided, maybe a sponge would have helped? I only ran to complete the run so my time was awful, but will be back next year. The hill at 11miles is not nice but it was still a lot nicer to finish through the town.
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: LetMeOutThere
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: pUT AS
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: RichardW
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A well organised race, [only] spoilt by the heat
In full: A lot of lowish scores for this. I reckon the heat has influenced them. Whilst I prefer the normal route, this one might've been OK if the temperature had not been approaching 30C. Ignoring the heat, it was very well organised, there was a nice T-shirt and medal, the end-of-race refreshments were up to their normal standard: ice lollies and free Lucozade. The chip timing was a nice feature too.
To those people who've answered 'No' to the 'do it again?' question, give it another go and judge it after that.
See y'all next year.
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: Steve Harman 4
| | Overall score | | 40% | | Would you do it again? | | No | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 20% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Hot and Oh so dull but well organised.
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: Anil Singh
| | Overall score | | 40% | | Would you do it again? | | No | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 40% |
In short: Too hot to start at 10am, 8/9am whould have been better
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: id
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Great Organisation, but dull route
In full: Realise there's nothing the organisers can do about the heat! Good marks for the marshalls and water stops - plenty of them, and well stocked.
Dull course though - running through town is an improvement, but there's just too much running along the side of a fairly major road.
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: Yummy Mummy
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Would have been a great race but the heat was unforgiving!
In full: I hate to be boring and say the same as everyone else but the weather made the race pretty unbearable at times. St johns ambulance were kept mighty busy! Being a city girl, I loved the scenery but there were a few long stretches/ hills. The ice lolly at the end was fab!
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: Ian Simcock
| | 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 short: Good friendly race but some killer long straights with no end in sight (3 miles!) and a terrible steep hill 1 and a half miles from the end.
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: Runner Martin
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Good event in blistering conditions
In full: Lots of plus's for this race, marshals, police did a good job medal and tee shirt
On the minus - just the heat - guess thats what you can get with a June event - Did over 10 mins slower than last year - and happy enough
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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2006 race reviewed by: David Young 9
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Excellent organisation. Very well marshalled and great support on course. Extremely hot hence not a course for PB's today!
Date of review: June 11, 2006
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