Poole Festival of Running 10K  Here's how RW members rated this race (143 votes). | The big picture (143 votes) | | Overall score | | 89% | | How many would do it again? | | 95% | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 83% | | PB potential | | 82% | | Atmosphere | | 82% | | Organisation | | 89% | | Value | | 84% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 82% |
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2012 race reviewed by: Speedster Si
 | | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Hot hot hot!!!
In full: Apart from the heat this was a great race. Well organised and the marshals very encouraging. Thank you to them all. Nice t-shirt as well.
Date of review: May 27, 2012
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2012 race reviewed by: L B
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Lovely hot day, well done everyone!
Date of review: May 27, 2012
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2011 race reviewed by: PartyEllie
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: great race, shame about the rain, like the deviation at the start of lap 2
Date of review: June 11, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: caroline21
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Great day, great run
In full: A good run especially in the rain. Excellant organisation and support. Shame about too many people wearing ear pieces when not allowed
Date of review: June 10, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: Andy Best
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Fantastic
In full: After pretty much weeks of glorious weatehr, and the prospect of running in 30+ degrees 2 days before hand, it absolutely lashed it down on the day. Fortunately it made for almost ideal running conditions, as the wind from the morning had dropped as well. Route has changed slightly from previous years, and this is for the better. Did seem to take a longer to get across the start line for some reason this year though.
Marshalls seemed to be friendlier and more encoraging than in previous years, which was good as the crowds were significantly down due to the rain. All the other runners seem to be friendly as well. If you are travelling for this event, bring the family and get them involved in the minithons in the morning, make a day of it. Well worth it. Or even better make a weekend of it, as you can pick up your number the day before.
Thanks to Poole Runners - very well sorted once again.
Date of review: June 7, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: Daniel Wakefield
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Very wet, very fast (for me) but lack of crowds versus 2010 . . .?
In full: 11 minutes faster than a year ago !
Date of review: June 6, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: Steve Sims
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Friendly,well organised,WET
Date of review: June 6, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: Wadda
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Wet, but fun
In full: A damp day, but nice and cooling, and all in all a really good race. The course is pretty much flat all the way round (2 laps) with only a couple of short inclines. It was a bit crowded on the first lap as some of the paths are narrow so there was a bit of puddle and people dodging going on.
Loads of water stops and good marshalling - although a little bad tempered in a couple of instances "GET OFF THE PAVEMENT - STAY ON THE ROAD".
Mezza Luna, the Italian restaurant in the park and nothing to do with the race, was comically bad. We'd arrived early (as per the instructions) to pick up the number and family were going to have a bite to eat whilst I ran. Restaurant was far from full but even so had stopped serving food at 1.15pm as they "were too busy". Who could have predicted they would be busy on race day?
Lots of stuff to keep the kids happy (bouncy castles and the like), and a friendly crowd of runners and supporters.
Really enjoyable day, and a very usable running shirt to take away. Thanks to the organisers, will definitely be back next year.
Date of review: June 5, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: Dlongie
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Great race, great venue, great organisation
In full: I travel 3 hours for this event and was not disappointed. Can you cancel the rain next year?
Will be back again. Cheers
Date of review: June 5, 2011
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2010 race reviewed by: Drew Jackson
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Brilliant
In full: Great scenery, great organisation, great race. A lot of fun.
Date of review: October 11, 2010
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