My Event Ratings

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

In short: More challenging course than you'd think
In full: Well organised, good to see chip timing spreading it's fingers further across the racing spectrum, good mix of runners including a few fast ones - Pretty tough course, hard first few km then it levelled out a little.

Nice medal and bag for the money, well done 2.09 events.
Date of review: June 30, 2010

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

In short: My Club's Run - Must say good things!
In full: Well, a lovely evening for a make-you-puff jaunt around Bracknell Forest, great scenery and atmosphere

Our marshalls were a little quiet, along with the announcer, but otherwise a challenging hard course, not one for the PBs.. but one to return for..
Date of review: June 17, 2010

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

In short: Great race, with a few pointers to brush up on
In full: Had to eventually do this race - It's the better half's home town race.

Wow was it hot - I've never been hit so hard byt the heat on a 10k, but 2 water stations - with BOTTLES! well done on that for a small race - thank god to not see so many plastic cups

But, the start area is poor - there wasn't much build up after the announcer banged on about the major running, then a 'GO' out of nowhere, then we had to squeeze through a bit of a bottleneck.

Couldn't understand why chips weren't posted out with numbers? and the numbers should have had some kind of emergency number space - I wrote my number on it anyways.

I went a visited the timing station after, and I *SWEAR* my garmin said I was 14 seconds quicker than the chip time, and the runner next to me had the same issue with around a 14 second discrepancy.

Apart from that, a technical T shirt, banana and bag were nice - No medal but sometimes that's life I guess.

I'll be back, but I'd love it to be earlier in the day or earlier in the year - This race hurt due to the temperature twinned with lots of dusty gravel.
Date of review: June 13, 2010

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

In short: Pros and Cons rule this race
In full: Second running of this race, and it pulls me to and fro what to say

Pro
- Local 10k
- Good Cause
- Free Tea / Coffee for runners
- Goody bag with choc. bar, apple, lucozade and medal
- Relatively good mashalling

Cons
- Lack of organisation, had runners come up and ask me where start line was
- Mass wide start line leading towards bottleneck
- Some really, really narrow pavements
- Was shunted into the (not closed) road by a stupidly placed water station

I might be back, we shall see.
Date of review: May 17, 2010

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

In short: Smashed my PB to pieces!
In full: 1.49 last year to 1.36.07 this year, has a great race - well marshalled, good support and love the course - I'll be back!!!
Date of review: May 10, 2010

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

In short: My favourite race of the year, and a new PB!
In full: Well run, well marshalled, great fast route and a lovely day out. Well done Reading as per usual!
Date of review: May 4, 2010

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

In short: Good scenery, pity the organisers.
In full: Pros

* Lovely bit of shiny, liked the medal
* Lots of drink stations - I didn't use them, but there were lots
* Good atmosphere, thank you crowds
* Good marshalling
* Goody bag and tshirt always make me happy

Cons

* Don't funnel runners slowly through a wind tunnel behind the Rec ground
* How you expect to get 16000 people down one side of a road I'll never quite know, I was picking my way through runners until the finish line
* Cones have a habit of popping up a lot, had to straddle jump one
* I wasn't sure if the green start had timing pens, but if it did, I didn't see them
* IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE A NO IPOD RACE THEN PULL THEM OUT OF THE BLOODY RACE!
Date of review: March 8, 2010

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

In short: My home town Half, a tad rainy but good
In full: Set a good time, could have done with more toilets and a bit less mud, and the baggage tent was a little dodgy in terms of staffing, but a great course and good marshalls.
Date of review: February 22, 2010

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

In short: Nice tour of Bris
In full: Well, Had to run it due to being the other half's home town, and it was anew challenge - the long pull up under the suspension bridge was quite tiring, and a few cobbles with a couple of k to go really made it hard, but the support was great, lots of drinks, made it a good day - could have done with more organisation on getting into the pens, but that's my only gripe, lots of goodies and a nice medal.
Date of review: September 7, 2009

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

In short: A race of pros and cons
In full: Ok, pros of this race

- Cheap, only £6 I think, or maybe £8
- Well marshalled, not the most talkative of marshalls but they did the job
- Interesting course
- You got just a number posted out, not even a map or on-the-day instructions

Cons

- Awful signposting - Had to talk to other runners lost in their cars before luckily tripping over the carpark
- 1 toilet for 400 people
- If you're into that kind of thing, you didn't get a piece of shiny or anything, just a glass of water at the end
- No distance markers

It had some right hard hills that really took some beating, and some of the single track was good, but there was a really long run of it, meaning you couldn't really overtake or slow down, which is a bit disconcerting.

I'd do it again, just to see if I'd improved on the hills.
Date of review: July 30, 2009

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