White Horse Gallop 5Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (8 votes). | 1 to 8 of 8 ratings | Page: 1 |
| The big picture (8 votes) | | Overall score | | 89% | | How many would do it again? | | 100% | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 90% | | PB potential | | 48% | | Atmosphere | | 65% | | Organisation | | 78% | | Value | | 75% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 62% |
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2011 race reviewed by: Denise Ellis 5
 | | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Just what sundays are made for.
In full: Good fun back to basics trail race with no contrived obstacles. Killer hill which seems to go on forever but then- Oh what views. Well done.
Date of review: November 28, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: Karl Kerr
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 20% |
In short: great race for first time trail. tough climb up hill but great course and wonderful scenery, defnitely do again. Rosette souvenir nice touch.
Date of review: November 28, 2011
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2011 race reviewed by: nickyfranks
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Really enjoyable run around the hills, great organisation. Super fun.
In full: This was quite a small event around the Westbury hills near the White Horse. The organisers did a great job and the participants were all very firendly and welcoming. Some families, range of ages and faster runners meant a mixed group which was reassuring for slow coaches like me.
The checkpoints were well positioned; slow runners, like me, could go for a meandering route collecting as many lower scoring checkpoints without going too far a-field. Faster entrants could test themselves and go for the far reaching red flags but I don't think anyone could get them all in the time limit. The weather was really wet and visibility was tough, all of the flags were put just out of line of sight but not stupidly hidden and their positioning on the map was spot on.
I don't think I've done very well on the ranking table but really had a great time. I planned a route for all the yellow flags and all but one blue, but couldn't find one yellow flag and must of run straight past in a post hill climb confusion ;( but did finish, quite a lot wetter that I started, just inside the time limit. My phone GPS went crazy when I started recording so a bit of misleading data but here's the google map that I recorded on My Tracks http://maps.google.com/maps/msmsa=0&msid=210918956449555810467.0004a480f4e8a6d1edf7d
Date of review: May 30, 2011
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2010 race reviewed by: Fiona Price 2
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Very very very cold -5 degrees, pretty scenic!
Date of review: December 15, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Andyrunningman
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A nice scenic race, challenging enough for all abilities, very well oganised.
Date of review: November 30, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Denise Ellis 5
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Keep it small and friendly. Great local race.
In full: Designated refreshment area would have been a nice touch. Leisure centre staff made cups of tea as it was so cold but I think they wouldnt normally do this. Loved every minute.
Date of review: November 29, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: Tim Woodman 2
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A very good first running of this race.
In full: Having signed up for this some time ago, we had no idea that race day would come round with sub zero maximum temps and snow on the ground. I opted for road shoes, thinking, correctly as it turned out, that any mud would be frozen solid...
There wasn't a bit turn out, and I guess the weather may have deterred some, but those that stayed away missed an excellent trot up the hill and back. No views of the white horse, but other than that the scenery was good, with cracking views from the ridge (which on a clear day would have been spectacular). Organisation was smooth, and the up hill, down hill nature of the route suited me as I knew I could let rip in the second half.
Not sure how many runners could be accommodated as the car park is quite small, but I hope to be back at this race in future years.
Date of review: November 29, 2010
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2010 race reviewed by: mi0805runner
| | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: so cold!
In full: turned up at this run fully expecting there to be a sign at the venue stating 'run cancelled due to adverse weather'. But it wasn't, and so glad - really well organised first-time event. 3 layers but -6 degrees meant i was still cold but lovely little local event and nicce course that seemed to be over really quickly. well done stampede sports
Date of review: November 28, 2010
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