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Here's how RW members rated this race (567 votes).

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The big picture 2008 (53 votes)
Overall score
 
98%
How many would do it again?
 
96%
 
Details:
Scenery
 
87%
PB potential
 
38%
Atmosphere
 
96%
Organisation
 
94%
Value
 
94%
Beginner-friendliness
 
75%
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2008 race reviewed by: Scott Levett
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
60%
PB potential
 
40%
Atmosphere
 
80%
Organisation
 
80%
Value
 
80%
Beginner-friendliness
 
60%

In short: I forgot how hard this race is!
In full: Rememberance Sunday. A poinient start with the last post, a firework salute and all competitors wearing poppies. Very much a feel good run...once you've finished! Prefered last year's course though.
Date of review: January 20, 2009

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2008 race reviewed by: Andy Scrase
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
40%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
80%

In short: Never again, well not until next year
In full: The one race I do make sure I do every year. Great race from the two minute silence at the start to the end with a little bit of mud thrown in for good luck
Date of review: November 22, 2008

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2008 race reviewed by: runner39
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
40%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
80%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
60%

In short: forget huge races,this is where the fun is!
In full: Full marks for 2 minutes silence at the start,and once again for the course,more fub than you can shake a mud pie at!
Date of review: November 15, 2008

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2008 race reviewed by: john tushingham
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
80%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
100%

In short: Aching, Covered in Mud, Smell awful, would I do it again, You bet Ya!!!!
Date of review: November 13, 2008

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2008 race reviewed by: fastball
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
80%
PB potential
 
40%
Atmosphere
 
80%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
60%

In short: muddy brilliant
In full: my first slog ,absolutly loved it best course i ever ran.what a graet way to spend a sunday morn.

Date of review: November 12, 2008

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2008 race reviewed by: TheRunningLinguist
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: Legendary race, vintage year
In full: Thanks Gordon; marshals; school; St John Ambulance; fellow runners and landowners...
Date of review: November 12, 2008

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2008 race reviewed by: Tom Tom T. Barrow
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
80%
PB potential
 
40%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
80%
Value
 
80%
Beginner-friendliness
 
60%

In short: Mud. Mud. Hill. Mud. River. Mud. Beer.
In full: Muddy and Cold.
Date of review: November 12, 2008

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2008 race reviewed by: Ali Runner
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
80%
PB potential
 
60%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
100%

In short: Mud, Mud Glorious Mud...
In full: One of the best ways to spend a Sunday morning!! The combination of mud, water, mud and more mud makes the 9 and a bit miles fly by. Great organisation and the cheerful spectators, marshalls and competitors make this race a truly uplifting experience. Unless you are alergic to having fun do this race!
Date of review: November 12, 2008

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2008 race reviewed by: Tickled Pink
Overall score
 
100%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
100%
PB potential
 
20%
Atmosphere
 
100%
Organisation
 
100%
Value
 
100%
Beginner-friendliness
 
100%

In short: Anyone for a wallow??
In full: Don't believe anything they tell you about this race - it's ten times worse than you could imagine but a hundred times more fun than you imagine anything like that could be!

Very touching at the start with the 2 mins silence and the Last Post. Everyone wearing a poppy.

I'd seen the photos but nothing prepared me for the reality of the mud, the water, the mud and .... more mud! And the water .... cold ... very cold ... and you just don't want to think what may lurk beneath!

I was beginning to really embrace the concept and replace my grimace with a grin when I had one tumble too many and had to be carted off with a twisted ankle :-(

I'll be back next year ... it takes a lot more than an bit of English mud to beat this Celt.
Date of review: November 11, 2008

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2008 race reviewed by: Julianne Adams
Overall score
 
80%
Would you do it again?
 
Yes
 
Details:
Scenery
 
80%
PB potential
 
40%
Atmosphere
 
60%
Organisation
 
80%
Value
 
80%
Beginner-friendliness
 
60%

In short: mud mud mud, fantastic marshalls, a few sharp hills and a packed gooody bag! I'll be back
Date of review: November 11, 2008

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