My Event Ratings

Overall score		60%
Would you do it again?		No
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		40%
Organisation		20%
Value		60%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: Should have been good but organisation terrible
In full: Appreciate that weather conditions not conducive to Marshalls wanting to be out but not one on a 23k bike course once out of the town?!Running marshalls sent some of us the wrong way and lack of organisation in the pool meant head on collisions. Glad it wasn't my first. Thanks to those marshals that did brave the weather for us, tho.
Date of review: October 6, 2008

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

In short: Great distance for multi terrain winter opener!
In full: Parking problems, dire lack of toilets but worth it for the fantastic scenery. A 6k multi terrain is a fantastic idea - just hilly enough to be challenging whilst being so much more fun than a road race. What views - a positively uplifting way to come out of hibernation!
Date of review: February 4, 2007

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

In short: Wow! extraordinary day
In full: What a race - fabulous scenery, impecable organisation and you felt like an Olympian every time the announcer called you "an athlete"! Tough bike course but good running and just a great event.
Date of review: September 19, 2006

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

In short: Tough but great half. Gloriously scenic.
In full: This is such a great race. It is gloriously pretty and lots of nice long downhills to make up for awful uphills. Three days later quads still havent recovered but well worth it - a perfect summer un
Date of review: July 12, 2006

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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		80%

In short: Love this race - the villagers make it very special
In full: Mostly pretty scenery, no killer hills and good marshalling but it is the people in the village (especially the families) who turn out with water and hoses to help in the heat who make it really special. Well worth turning out to this one.
Date of review: June 26, 2006

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

In short: A practically perfect 10K
In full: Really pretty scenery, gentle gradients, tarmac paths, traffic free, nice people, good organisation - does it get any better for a gentle Saturday afternoon out?
Date of review: May 21, 2006

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

In short: Only let down by terrible weather
In full: This would have qualified as "special" in overall summary if weather had not been so awful - sleet and temendous headwind meant full fun of race difficult to appreciate. On a nice spring day it would an absolute delight. Excellent cakes!!
Date of review: April 4, 2006

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

In short: More signs for those at the back please!
In full: First ever fell race - tough but great fun (well the downhills were)and people were really friendly but I was leading the last three home and we had to stop walkers to confirm the way home twice and stop to confer with each other three times - more than a little bit worrying out on Cloud in the cold - more signs please.
Date of review: March 6, 2006

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

In short: Do it again but please change chip system
In full: Great race - organisation excellent and too busy looking at tarmac to notice scenery BUT what about the chip timing - I had finished for over three minutes when some little chap came up with a scanner to take my time! Having achieved much trained for sub 60 mins was not happy to see result on web site. Could we have mat to mat again next year?
Date of review: February 27, 2006

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

In short: Hard but great fun - Marshalls friendly and atmosphere great
Date of review: May 22, 2005

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