Matthew Walker 10k xmas pud race  Here's how RW members rated this race (140 votes). 2008 race reviewed by: runswithhangover
 | | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: NIce race, shame about the pud!
In full: Hey, you did listen and order better weather! Despite the views of opencasting, this was a great run. And the uphill run in could be the signature of the race - keep the course for next year? But for us vets the pud was a bit cheap?
Date of review: November 17, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: Twigs n bark!
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: 9.8 pleasnat kilometres...very last bit awful!
In full: The organisaion of the car parking is excellent. The new route was much better in my opinion than last year. The reace is well mashalled but only 1 marshal and 2 police officers cheered or shouted encouragement. Thank you to the water station for being so cheerful. The final hill was a bit of a killer and I am very grateful to the man who encouraged me and pushed me up the hill telling me to keep on going..."Pitter patter"-thank you. But to run/sprint through the finish line then have to come to an instant halt in finishing order when you need to gadually slow down was ludicrous and potentially dangerous. Running for 50 minutes then instantly stopping and standing still for several minutes with other equally tired runners whilst officials took down your number was bizarre. Please use running chips or alter this for next year. Well done on sorting out better weather for us this year whoever is in charge of that!!!
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: payless
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 40% |
In short: Good race - apart from hill at finish!!!
In full: This race was challenging - more hills than I had expected on the first 5km!.
However, second half was enjoyable, until I got to the final hill at the finish - I'd had enough by then!!
However, good feeling about this run, I'll be back next year.
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: Craig Walsh
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Great race, lack of toilets!
In full: Good, fun race and suprisingly fast - at least for me ;-) Only criticism (and it's a significant one) is there only seemed to be 4 toilets for 750 runners. Who the heck did the maths on that one?! Looking forward to the pudding!
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: Steve Selway
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: challenging but well worth the effort
In full: quite hilly but it was a very good event. will do it again but next time i will train more. well organised and great scenery.
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: MrsPikey
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: More ups than downs on the first half but meant a strong finish
In full: Lovely run along the trail at the end but the finish uphill was plain cruel :-)
Got a PB so happy chappy
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: Dronfield Runner
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Good mixture of road and with trail finnish - enjoyed it
In full: Undulating,uphill at finnish was only 200m! All hills are relative - enjoyed the pudding !
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: Dermot Toberty
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: This was my first time at this event and I thought it ran very well. .
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: Peter Broomhead
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Found it quite tough on the early hills but lovely day for the run
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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2008 race reviewed by: Stoat
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Shame about hill at finish
In full: New route, enjoyed last 5k most, when off road. Expected a few hills but not the hill to finish - when most of us want to blast last 400m and end up with another hill. Any chance of flat finish next year?
Date of review: November 16, 2008
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