Events

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

In short: Beautiful scenery but steep hills
In full: Running through Alresford and seeing all the beautiful scenery (such as the watrecress farms) was really lovely. But it is a tough course. You go up and down a fair few hills. It's an out and back route so you're fully aware of the hills to come.
Great medals - really special and feel quite heavy. And 500g bag of watrecress as well. Really nice touch.
Date of review: June 18, 2013

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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: LUMPY RATHER THAN HILLY?
In full: A lovely day and a lovely atmosphere. Lots of little kids doing high fives near the end and liked the self contained start/finish in the recreation ground. Loved the cress and the bananas. Hills feel tough at the time but none of them last long. Marshalls were great but I was generally too puffed up hill to say thank you!
Date of review: June 17, 2013

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

In short: Hilly, friendly and watercress/bananas for everyone
In full: Lovely local race with a challenging but very beautiful route.
Very efficient registration process for entry on the day and smiley, friendly marshalls all the way round.
Good medal, watercress + bananas for all finishers and excellent pre/post race massage from Lou Walker
Find it difficult to criticise anything about this race apart from may be a lack of clock at the finish line.
Definitely recommend this race (unless you're PH hunting!!)
Date of review: June 17, 2013

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

In short: Excellent races, well organised, friendly. The whole family can participate.
Date of review: June 17, 2013

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

In short: Just a great 10k with fab scenery and a couple of hilly bits for good measure!
In full: A well organised friendly 10k with beautiful Hampshire scenery very little traffic and a couple of hills to keep you on your toes! Marshalls as usual excellent and friendly and one of the nicest medals you can recieve in my opinion.
Date of review: June 16, 2013

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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%

In short: Well organized and enjoyable race
In full: The course has a fair few ups and downs, especially the run down to the 5K turnaround point, where you see the front-runners slogging their way back up, letting you know exactly what's in store.

So it's probably not somewhere to get a PB unless you've gained a lot of speed, but the undulations aren't really too much of a challenge. Lovely scenery as you get into the countryside section, and the weather just about held off long enough, though perhaps some of the slower runners got a little damp.

Organization was very good, with plenty of marshals, and kilometre markers all in the right places (the 2km board had fallen over, but there was paint on the road to mark it too).

The bag of watercress for finishers is a particularly nice touch to give a bit of local flavour.
Date of review: June 16, 2013

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

In short: Tough and hilly race, brilliantly organized and marshalled in pretty Hampshire countryside
In full: Started and finished at the Alresford Recreation Ground, with the bonus of watching several fun runs round the field before the 10K began. Challenging out and back through the town and looping round the surrounding countryside. Some good small hills to test mid-season stamina, so not likely to lead to any PBs (certainly not for me)! Great support along the way and excellent marshalls. A really lovely event and definitely one I would recommend.
Date of review: June 16, 2013

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

In short: Beautiful country side, some killer hills but great fun and good atmosphere
Date of review: June 16, 2013

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

In short: Well organised event but one criticism - no time clock at the finish line or anybody with a watch telling you what time you'd finished.
Date of review: June 16, 2013

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

In short: A friendly local race with some hills to test your legs
In full: A nice wet morning run in the Hampshire countryside Last couple of kms you join the 5K run so helps you along to the finish. Only thought if they cant provide a momento to on the day entries how about considering offering the most famous local produce of watercress, which I would be happy to take home and give the race a unique twist as the last mile is run through the watercress beds ! Great to see all the children in the fun runs and everyone enjoying themselves despite the rain. Be back next year, well done rotary club
Date of review: June 12, 2011

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