My Event Ratings

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

In short: Weather and bad org. mainly to blame. What happened to cause an hour delay? Very de-motivating.
Date of review: March 27, 2008

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

In short: The exit from the Castle was a nightmare! prefer to end in millennium stadium as per 2006
Date of review: October 29, 2007

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Overall score		40%
Would you do it again?		No
Details:
Scenery		40%
PB potential		20%
Atmosphere		100%
Organisation		20%
Value		40%
Beginner-friendliness		100%

In short: What a disaster!!! FC
In full: Did anyone else have the same problem as me i.e. GETTING TO THE START LINE ON TIME!!
How frustrating DLR, London's only line to Greenwich via the Dockland Light Rail announces a derailment with an hour to go to the start of the biggest race in London -annually.
This meant we all had to scramble to the start via other (multiple) connections to arrive off the train in Greenwich to hear the gun go off.
With increasing stress to get to the start line, up a rather impressive hill, I was tired before I even started the race.
Following we had to leave in our bags and follow BEHIND the fancy dress runners/walkers where originally I was supposed to start at pen4 !!!!
So if you think two and a half hours are sufficient to get from Shoreditch to Greenwich (via London's ONLY transport system) to the start line, you are hugely mistaken.
What a disaster!!! Never again London (as a first time marathon runner).

PS You will have to do better for next years runners.........

PPS Why are runners allowed mobile phones during the race! Very bad idea!!!

Date of review: May 4, 2007

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