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2007 Mad March Hare 20 NOW FULL
 | | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Excellent event - everything you need from a long run with great marshalls, organisation and atmosphere. Just the right size of field. Great momento. Great value.
In full: OK, so the weather was awful with heavy rain and strong gusty winds so a 20 miler was never going to be easy for somebody training for their first marathon.
The village of Burton was easy to find via the internet, though signage (even close to the event) seemed sparse. Parking was essentially a 'free for all' in local side roads but most seemed to get parked without too much bother.
The race started promptly, which was just as well as the cold and damp could easily have set in with the prevailing conditions.
I really enjoyed the course, down quiet country lanes. Lots of direction changes meant you were never fighting into the wind for too long and didn't have a horrible view of the road streching out to the horizon which I always dread. There were a couple of busier roads to cross but these appeared very well marshalled and car drivers seemed polite and patient. A lot of water on the road, particularly between mile 15 and 16 which was more like a stream. People pay a lot of money for conditions like tht in other 'adventure' type races.
Marshalls throughout were very positive and encouraging, big thanks to them. Water stations were frequent and well managed.
Towell as a momento was a great idea and came in very handy!
So, all in all an excellent event. Thanks to everybody who helped put on a great run.
Date of review: March 5, 2007
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2006 Gosport Half-Marathon
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Great event, great marshals, great value for money, great all-round! Shows other, much more expensive runs, how to do it.
Date of review: November 19, 2006
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2006 BUPA Great South Run
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: I really enjoyed myself, the atmosphere was great.
Date of review: October 23, 2006
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2006 Marwell Zoo 10K
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Brilliant
In full: A great fun run, 10K and the opportunity to see Marwell Zoo - all in all fantastic value and great organisation.
Beautiful scenery along traffic free country lanes, though the hill that seems to go on for ever may affect the beginer friendliness.
The atmosphere was excellent and was coupled to excellent organisation.
With free entry to the zoo for runners (including fun runners) this was great value and makes a great race a really great family day out.
The time banded start (with runners all coming from the same access point - not like last years twin access approach to the start) meant that the start seemed much smoother - well done.
Date of review: May 7, 2006
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2006 B&Q Eastleigh 10K
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: A solid performer!
In full: This race gets so much right.
Parking was easy at the race venue. Collecting the race T-shirt was just like last year, well organised but the sports hall suffers from narrow corridors. The T-shirt is fine, not technical but OK.
The race itself is well organised. Good start position with markers for banding the starters depending upon predicted finish time. Run on good wide roads that are really well marshalled with a strong police presence to keep the car drivers under control. The route is not scenic but to be honest what do you expect around eastleigh town? It is fast with good PB potential and only one little incline to negotiate and as such is excellent for beginers or the less experienced.
All in all this is a great south coast race that deserves its reputation.
Date of review: March 19, 2006
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2006 Chichester Priory 10K
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Brilliantly organised event with good PB potential
In full: This is a brilliant event, with excellent organisation.
Did it last year and will definately do it again next year.
Can not praise highly enough.
Only gripe is that you can not hear the start gun/horn (whatever it was?).
Excellent value race suitable for all levels, good PB potential.
Date of review: February 5, 2006
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2005 Poole Festival of Running 10K
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: A well deserved reputation
In full: Slick organisation makes for a great day. This is, in my opinion, the benchmark 10K event on the south coast.
The route is good, and is beginer friendly but if you want to push on allows plenty of potential for a PB.
The weather this year was a bit naff but even that couldn't dampen the positive attitude. The route is enthusiastically marshalled, with plenty of marshalls around. Even with poor weather there were also a lot of spectators around the route giving plenty of encouragement.
I will be back again next year.
Date of review: June 6, 2005
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2005 Marwell Zoo 10K
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A pleasant day out in the sun
In full: Childrens fun run was excellent - the goody bags were a bonus but the organisation could have done with being a bit slicker.
As for the 10K...
The start was far too congested and I thought time bands were going to be used - they weren't and the road was too narrow for the numbers. I lost about 30-40 seconds on the first KM.
After that the pack opened up and there were some tough climbs to negotiate but the lanes were pretty.
The marshalls were great and two water stations was an excellent idea, it was hot work.
The last couple of KMs were, thankfully, flat with an evil little uphill to the finish.
All in all a good but challenging race.
Date of review: April 25, 2005
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2005 B&Q Eastleigh 10K
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 40% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Well organised run - good course.
In full: Things started well as it was easy to park. Start line well sign posted. Good clear announcements - although the starting pistol wasn't that loud where I was (about 2/3rds the way back). Well thought out route, with a slight incline - the descent seemed longer so the middle markers came up fairly easily. Got to run past the start just after mid-way so the family could shout some encouragement. Well marshalled throughout. Scenery is urban Eastleigh - I like the place, has a bit of industrial victorian charm! Good fast flat back 5Km means good PB potential. Definately a friendly race that would be suitable for beginers. Only gripe (if it matters after all the positives) is that getting the T-shirt was a bit of a nightmare, I got mine before the race and the corridors to the room seemed very narrow and congested. But...the t-shirt is a good one! Will add this to my list of events to do again.
Date of review: March 14, 2005
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2005 Chichester Priory 10K
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: A cracking run - everything was really well organised. Plus my daughter really rated the burger van (best burger ever!).
In full: Good from the word go - a large car park which was keenly organised. Excellent tannoy, no problems hearing the announcements. Start organised into time bands (why aren't all races done like this?). Big field but spread out nice and quickly so you had a bit of space to run. Some terrific country roads that were almost traffic free and were very well marshalled. The course wasn't quite as flat as I'd expected but it did seem very fast, having said that it wasn't 'hilly' just gentle ups and downs.
Overall this is an excellent event and would suit anybody from beginner upwards - will definately add this to my list of must do runs.
Date of review: February 6, 2005
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