My Event Ratings

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

In short: WHAT NO WATER FOR BACK RUNNERS
In full: this is my 4th half and by far the worst organised ive done this 2 times, and all good apart from this. dont know when the water ran out but no one at the back got any. it was about 14 km into the race that i actually got water given to me there was a lot of people struggling loads dropped out with cramp to ask people to pay for this and then not give adequate refreshments.
my time for this was appaling 10 mins off Pb but not surprising there was quite a few got carted away by the ambulances probably due to dehydrated, there is a lot of fun runners that go out there way to raise sponsorship and then probably get carted off to hospital.next year i will pack some desalanation tablets and then i drink the water in the duck pond which i very nearly did this time Plus the lack of t shirt was another smack in the face. 2 water stations for half marathon there was 2 in the 10k no wonder there was problems
Date of review: March 25, 2007

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

In short: 3rd timer
In full: this is the 3rd time i have run this race and the numbers serious down, sadly not as good as the 2 previous events, hopefully next year will be better, im, not sure about excuses with numbers being down due to greatnorth run is acceptable im sure the dates would be well known in advance this race couldve been moved back to accomodate if it was being taken seriously,
Date of review: October 8, 2006

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Overall score		40%
Would you do it again?		No
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		40%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		40%
Value		60%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: wasnt impressed
In full: badly planned late start, water stations were badly managed half the cups where half full, stewarding was poor, not enough water stations , goodie bag was ok, nice medal at the end but think theres alot of better managed events around, lots of effort should be put into next years event to bring it up to scratch , the 10k here is much better organised
Date of review: June 4, 2006

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

In short: Good day out in blackpool
In full: good day out in blackpool.2nd year running ive done this race and would recommend, and a very nice medal at the end
Date of review: May 8, 2006

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

In short: great day well organised , wud do again and again
In full: great day out everything well organised, got good bag within seconds of finishing bagging returned very quickly but i was late in , i managed 2 55 in my first half marathon was on for 2 30 until i got severe cramp on 8miles but not put off would recommend to everyone , and everyone so friendly
Date of review: March 19, 2006

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

In short: PB POTENTIAL
In full: nice race shame about the blustery wind but good day out will be back again next year
Date of review: October 9, 2005

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

In short: IMPROVEMENT ON LAST YEAR
In full: improvements on last with the hill gone, the parking wasnt a problem despite a few moans, baggage reclaim was a problem waited 30 mins, and also no one knew where the start finish lines where similar problem to last year, nice medal and cheap and nasty t shirt and the out of date water nice touch !
Date of review: October 9, 2005

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

In short: where was all the km markings
In full: this was my first race , i thought the parking was terrible , adequate parking but time it took to get from pier head to parking area was about 35mins. Im a beginner and felt it would be useful to have an km markers mile markers that were there were to small and inadequate, should be better as for the water station on 3m where was it?? and the 4m water station the water was strange brown colour i enjoyed the race but feel couldve improved on certain aspects.
Date of review: October 12, 2004

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