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Grizzly

Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (166 votes).

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2010 race reviewed by: Fluffbug
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
40%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
40%

In short: Amazing day!!!! Thanks AVR for a brilliant, if tough, course, fantastic marshalls....a cracking day!!!!
Date of review: March 8, 2010

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2010 race reviewed by: Hip runner
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
40%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
60%

In short: Its got everything you want in a race
In full: Great race beach/water/mud/hills/steps/bogs/and lots of cheerful marshalls and supporters. Well done Axe Vally Runners made my day.
Date of review: March 8, 2010

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2010 race reviewed by: Caramel
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
80%
Beginner-friendliness
 
60%

In short: Brilliant - Thank you Axe Valley
In full: Lots of cheerful marshalls, Music, motivation, Hills, Mud, beach & a Shrine. Looking forward to next year already
Date of review: March 8, 2010

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2010 race reviewed by: Darren Miller
Overall score
 
80%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
80%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
80%
Beginner-friendliness
 
80%

In short: Awesome muddy hilly event
In full: Fantastic event thoroughly enjoyable- see you next year for more mud
Date of review: March 8, 2010

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2010 race reviewed by: Running Rick
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
40%

In short: Well Organised, loads of happy Marshall's, beautiful views.
In full: Atmosphere was great, really upbeat and motivating. Support was great, hills numerous. Mud didn't seem as bad as the Terminator last weekend, beach running was exhausting. Loved the big climb up the cliff face, it was my first but not my last the encounter of the Grizzly!
Date of review: March 8, 2010

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2010 race reviewed by: Simon boast
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
80%

In short: Well done Axe Valley, top notch again.
In full: Thanks to all the excellent marshals and the entertainment around the course. As usual a rather challenging course.
Took a bit of a tumble in the bog, there is mud in every body orifice.

Date of review: March 7, 2010

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2010 race reviewed by: Gertie
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Maybe
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
80%
Beginner-friendliness
 
60%

In short: Sadistic course but very welcoming and friendly.
In full: Axe Vally Runners - you are a bunch of sadistic gits. That was harder than any marathon I've done but it was worth it.
Date of review: March 7, 2010

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2006 race reviewed by: Ben Nicholson
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
80%
Beginner-friendliness
 
80%

In short: Very fun as long as you don't mind mud
Date of review: January 1, 2007

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2006 race reviewed by: Borders
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
80%
Beginner-friendliness
 
40%

In short: Wet - cold - muddy - brilliant
In full: Do I get the record for putting in the latest review?
My third Grizzly but my best performance in some of the worst conditions. Yet another cult t-shirt to add to my collection. The wind and the mud was endless but adds to the kudos of this event.
Can't wait till next year.
Date of review: August 25, 2006

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2006 race reviewed by: Paul Allen
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
40%

In short: Mud water and hills - it must be the Grizzly
In full: Entries for the 2006 race were snapped up even faster than last year, only a month for 2000+ entries, and still I made it to the start line for my second Grizzly. Organisation was brilliant again, the course slightly different in the middle, with a section of Weston beach omitted for safety reasons on the day. The weather was cold and wet and still people turned up for this - they must be keen. My time was similar to last year despite running 1.5 miles less on the day, so it must have been hard. Far more water obstacles this year but they did wash the mud off. The scenery is amazing, the marshalls and crowd wonderful, and I can't explain why I want to do it again. This should rate as a marathon, even if it is short of the horizontal distance, some of the climbs more than make up for it.
Date of review: June 27, 2006

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