My Event Ratings

Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		80%
Atmosphere		40%
Organisation		20%
Value		60%
Beginner-friendliness		100%

In short: Not properly planned
In full: The infrastructure would have been perfect for 200 runners, not the nearly 2,000 that seemed to turn up. Three masssive queues - collect number/chip, loos and baggage. Start delayed, but most people were still in queues when they gun went. Course was full of obstacles, pedestrians, dogs, children, cars until the tow path. At the finish, the queue for t-shirts, goody bags, chip removal, was back to the finishing line, so no space to slow down.
Date of review: November 8, 2009

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

In short: Good course, good flow of runners.
Date of review: October 14, 2009

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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: Great course, well organised.
In full: Excellent organisation and a good mainly flat course. The gentle hills around the city were not a problem.
Date of review: May 26, 2009

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

In short: Fast scenic course, good for spectators
In full: Low key local event. Smallish field gives plenty of space. Superb for a PB, but vulnerable to strong winds, so tuch in behind a bigger runner.
Date of review: April 11, 2009

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

In short: Quite a hard course
In full: Why race in February? Well, the undulating course gives you a good training run before going into the exhibition to look at the latest kit.

This is not a slick mass participation event, but a low profile local event, which is just fine.
Date of review: February 8, 2009

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Overall score		40%
Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		40%
Organisation		20%
Value		40%
Beginner-friendliness		100%

In short: Poor venue, poor organisation
In full: O2 site was too spread out to work as a decent venue. Organisation was poor. Feeding stations were undermanned.
Date of review: October 6, 2008

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

In short: Downsides are the long wait for the start (55 mins), absence of loos near the start , lack of estimated finish time seeding and dull -shirt (although a big imporvement on last year).
Date of review: July 1, 2007

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

In short: Downsides are the long wait for the start (55 mins), absence of loos near the start , lack of estimated finish time seeding and dull -shirt (although a big imporvement on last year).
Date of review: July 1, 2007

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