Great North West Half-MarathonHere's how RW members rated this race in the past (398 votes). 2010 race reviewed by: Tony Hails
 | | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Well marshalled run along the front at Blackpool
In full: Well done on keeping the race on and well done to the brave marshalls who looked after us but pre and post race attention to detail was lacking. The Hilton and Portaloo's were terrible and the girls should of made up the bags while we were racing to ease the congestion at the end.
Date of review: February 26, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Richard Stevenson 6
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Atmosphere | | 40% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 40% |
In short: Very fast but not very interesting race.
Date of review: February 25, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: jay0007
| | Overall score | | 40% | | Would you do it again? | | No | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 40% | | Organisation | | 20% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 20% |
In short: still not up to scratch
In full: no secure baggage area as advertised. i asked an official where to put my stuff and a large lady by the computers told me to put my bag by a chair, but when i went to sit on it, she screamed at me that i wasn't allowed to sit on a chair! then said we weren't allowed in that area. so how were we supposed to leave our gear there? stand on the other side of the room and poke our bags over with a long stick?
empty goody bag with nothing left at all to go in it, not even a bottle of water, and i wasn't in the last 50.
garmin measured well short.
not enough toilets. smelly porta loos that got disgustingly full too soon.
Date of review: February 24, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: johnzyboy
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: freindly marshalls.very flat
In full: Thank god it was not windy. Only my second h.m. really enjoyed it.
Date of review: February 24, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: kazzy96
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Atmosphere | | 40% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Flat Pb course nice friendly marshalls !
Date of review: February 23, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Scott Ward 5
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Great job clearing the snow! Chuffed with my time and goody bag! It probably doesn't deserve the rating I gave it completely, but it's my first so obviously I'm abit biased
Date of review: February 23, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Fiona J
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 40% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Could Have Been Better
In full: The organisers had done a good job of clearing the route of snow. However, the huge queue for the goodie bag - make it yourself was poor and not ideal as soon as you stopped running. Also they gave out all the Mars bars first so only Snickers left which is a problem if you can't eat nuts I thought I would pass out. I also thought that having to pay for the portaloo was poor given the entry fee.
Date of review: February 23, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Simon Cooper 3
| | Overall score | | 40% | | Would you do it again? | | No | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 40% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 20% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Not as good as last year
In full: The organisers did very well to clear the snow. Apart from for that, the organisation wasn't great. The goodie bags were awful (tatty medal and t-shirt, Snickers and water) and took ages to collect. What we received seemed very poor value for money given there was no chip timing and few roads to close. I found the bloke on the tannoy to be de-motivating ("all the people coming in now have past the 1:30 mark") and the race lacked atmosphere. I was looking forward to the event but after this experience I won't be doing it again.
Date of review: February 23, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Oglush
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In full: I've put it as an all time favourite only because it was my first half marathon and so will always be special. However I would imagine that although good it wouldnt have been if I had done others.
Date of review: February 23, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Badbond006
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Good PB potential would've been better in the summer!
In full: A well organised event. Great PB potential.
RW pacers were ace - thanks RW!
Blackpool was a little dull at thi time of year, and would be nice to do this in summer season!
T-shirt was dull, and goody bag was shocking! - a bag to hold a bottle of water?
I would consider doing it again however cos the course was ideal!
Date of review: February 22, 2010
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