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

In short: Excellent scenic marathon, though hard with the hills. A good way to see some of the Isle of Wight
Date of review: December 20, 2005

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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: Tough but rewarding!
In full: I was expecting hills but crikey! I found it a tough course but I actually really enjoyed this race. Set in beautiful scenery in places, with very friendly locals (never have I been cheered so much in one race!), I certainly recommend this race. See you next time!
Date of review: August 23, 2005

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

In short: Lovely scenery, well organised, excellent race
In full: Really well orgainsed, brilliant scenery, and a nice challenging route, very hot and sunny, my only regret was not taking water with me, altho I will say the water points were excellent. Well done and thanks to the marshalls
Date of review: August 22, 2005

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Overall score		100%
Would you do it again?		Yes
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		80%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		20%

In short: great run, with 3 long drags, there are many small hills, but the three hardest are at the 11 mile stage, 16 mile stage and the back breaker is the long long drag at the 23 mile stage, gop for it, it will put hairs on your chest...
Date of review: June 3, 2005

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

In short: It's a tough course but very rewarding if you can finish.
In full: It's a tough course but very rewarding if you can finish.

The marshals are very patient and they do not put a time limit on the race. Great news for us fun runners.

The hills provide a good challenge the more experienced runners who want to test themselves.

I'm told that next year will be the 50th time this race has been held! There are big plans being made and the organisers have already attracted sponsorhip for 2006. I'm looking forward to it already.
Date of review: May 28, 2005

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

In short: Bloody hard for my first marathon, but well worth it!
Date of review: May 24, 2005

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

In short: toughest marathon i have ever ran
In full: great day out - i'm training for comrades - this was a test - my hardest marathon ever and i got a pb - i did 2 oceans (56km) in 2004 - this was tougher, but a great run.
Date of review: May 23, 2005

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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		20%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		100%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		40%

In short: Tough, well organised and friendly but the traffic is horrendous
In full: Every bit as hard as the rumours say- only a couple of the hills are really steep, but its the sheer number of them that wears you down.Good organisation and lots of water/sponge stations, the only downside is that you are frequently running on the side of the road alongside heavy,fast and usually impatient traffic.
I suffered for the last 10 miles, but the fast final mile at least lets you claw back a bit of time.Definitely a race to be experienced !
Date of review: May 23, 2005

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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		20%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		60%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		40%

In short: Memorable! Tough with a capital 'T', low key but worth the challenge.
In full: Maybe I didn't do enough hill training, maybe I'm just a wimp but I never want to see another hill again.

Hill after hill after hill makes this a challenging course, still it's worth doing if you want to test yourself. NOT recommended for a first time marathon, which mine was!!!

A very small number of entries meant that it could get quite lonely as the racers spread out.

I have to comment that there were plenty of drinks and sponge stations, and the organisers were willing to drop off your own drinks at any one, or all, of these. Oh and they were constantly checking your number on the course, just in case you had got ‘lost’ and ‘inadvertently’ taken a short cut!

A nice atmosphere, with lots of runners helping others, and then clapping as others finished.

Traffic was a BIG problem, I watched two guys almost get wiped out by a bus whose driver was just too impatient to wait 30 seconds!!!

I suffered for the last 10 mile, and suffered severely for the last 5. Thanks to Steve from York for all his help over those last few miles, I owe you a beer fella!!

With more training I might be back, maybe!!!!!!

Date of review: May 23, 2005

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