Events

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

In short: A great race, ran sub 43 for the first time when aiming for sub 44. Essential to set and maintain realisistic pace on the seafront befrore the hillill.
Date of review: April 5, 2012

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

In short: Lovely day!
In full: Generally well organised, start was not as chaotic as I expected, could do with more time zones. Only criticism is of the office. There was a problem with my entry,the telephone number given is a voicemail and nobody calls back! Fortunately problem was sorted on the day with no fuss.
Date of review: April 4, 2012

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

In short: Gets bigger and better every year.
In full: This is an excellent race with great coastal views. The only criticism is the start area which was better organised than previous years but is still congested. Apart from that, great! See you next year.
Date of review: April 4, 2012

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

In short: Excellent Event Yet Again!
In full: This was my 4th Bournemouth Bay Half Marathon (sorry could only find the 10K event on here to leave feedback).

This event is always extrememly well organised with so much happening on the day. I like how the races are staggered so there are plenty of people on the course at once.

As the event continues to grow, the organisers must have a look at the start as the line up for the half (and the 10k by the look of it) is getting extremely congested along the narrow stretch of promenade by the pier.

That aside, the atmosphere is great, the weather always seems to be perfect and value is incredible.

I'll be back next year.
Date of review: April 2, 2012

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

In short: Great race, loved it!
In full: Lovely race, really nice to run along the coast! tough zig zag! shame the road at the top was open to cars (tho quite hard to close that road i imagine) as a lot of runners had to run off the pavement as they didn't fit!

will be back next yr without a doubt!
Date of review: April 6, 2011

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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: Great event
Date of review: April 6, 2011

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

In short: Great course and event but needs to iron out the start/finish area issues.
Date of review: April 4, 2011

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

In short: Glorious course but the organisers need to iron out the chaos at the starting line
In full: This is a wonderfully scenic course with plenty of of PB potential - out along the wide and flat prom, up a zigzag, returning along the undulating clifftop with a 2.6km flat finish back along the prom with plenty of potential for a sprint finish.

The only thing that marred the race was the organisation at the start. Although runners should have positioned themselves according to their predicted finishing times (as per signs along the starting barriers), the organisers were pushing all the competitors backwards from the starting line with the result that the quicker runners (who should have been up the front) were pushed backwards into slower categories to make room for other starters who were much much slower and should have moved through the crowd to the back (but didn't). This meant that the start was extremely congested and quicker runners had to dodge plodders for the first 1km or so before the race thinned out. An easy solution would be for the starting barrier to be filled from the back, so that quicker runners can make their way forward to the starting line, not vice versa.

Aside from the chaos at the start, it was a lovely race and a great day out. A great t-shirt and nice medal.
Date of review: April 4, 2011

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

In short: Nice run..nice weather..nice day
In full: Well organized run on an excellent route with good scenery. Will definateley do it again.
Only slight niggle is the route to the start for runners, who approach from the front and stay there. I started in the sub 45 area and had to negotiate my way around a pantomine cow.
Date of review: April 3, 2011

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

In short: Nice course for trying to break a PB
Date of review: April 12, 2010

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