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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		60%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: Great location and scenery, and friendly organisation and crowds at the finish. Long slow climb to start with followed by a downhill and a further shorter climb at 7k.
Date of review: September 4, 2006

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Overall score		100%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		100%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		60%
Value		100%
Beginner-friendliness		80%

In short: Great scenery, hard race
In full: Fantastic route through the grounds of Arundel Castle. The first 5.5k virtually all uphill so not good for PB but a great work out
Date of review: August 31, 2006

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Overall score		100%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		100%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		80%
Value		100%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: Great race, need to practise hill climbs before though!!!!
In full: Not PB potential but a great race. Great atmosphere and scenery. The beginning and the end of the race goes through Arundel Castle which is worth doing in itself. About the first 5k is on a tarmac incline through Arundel Park to which you then have to run down Target Valley. There is another 0.5k incline. The finish this year ended going down the high street instead of up which I found was quite narrow. Glad there were more water stations this year as it gets quite hot running uphills! All in all a good race and look forward to doing it next year. ;-)
Date of review: August 30, 2006

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Overall score		60%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		40%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: The hills are alive with the sound of ... people running up hills and down hills, rather steep ones, and then back up another smaller but just as steep one and ... finally finishing. [Julie Andrews is my mum.]
Date of review: August 29, 2006

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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		100%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		80%
Value		60%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: Lovely setting, just don't under estimate the climb
In full: Really beautiful setting, well organised. Because of the steady climb for the first half of the race it is really difficult to pace yourself, and just when you thought it would start to get easier at the top, the path becomes uneven, then when you are getting used to the uneven track and heading downwards they throw in another punishing climb which just about finished me off!
Nice atmosphere and a great crowd cheering you on at the end. Might take me a bit longer to convince myself I enjoyed it and to try again next year
Date of review: August 29, 2006

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

In short: The scenery more than makes up for that long slog up to 5km!
In full: Must admit that my ankles and calves were screaming on Monday from the grassy downhill - but beautiful and had fun at the Arundel Festival afterwards. Fantastic BBQ Sausages afterwards!
Date of review: August 29, 2006

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

In short: prefer finishing up the hill instead of down the hill
Date of review: August 29, 2006

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

In short: Terrific as usual
Date of review: August 29, 2006

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

In short: Hard work but well worth it
In full: My first time doing this run and I really enjoyed it. It was hard work partly because it was hotter than I had expected and I had worn the wrong clothing. The last upward hill was a killer for me, next year I will pace myself better. View at the top was fantastic, I wished I'd had time to stop and take it in a bit longer.
Date of review: August 28, 2006

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

In short: Hard Hilly Race - 421 ft climb, only 342 ft back down!
In full: Hard 5.5k up, but well worth it for the views ( not that there was time to stop & look!). That hill at 7.5 to 8k was the worse, I nearly walked, many did! Great momento, makes a change from a medal. The festival in the Town meant that we stayed around a bit afterwards. Bought some lovely bread & Onion Marmalade & sat in Swanbourne lake for a picnic afterwards.
Only one minor gripe. Why did all the water stations seem to be just as a downhill section started! Have them on the uphill I prefer to run downhill!
Date of review: August 28, 2006

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