My Event Ratings

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

In short: an organized park-run, no water at the finish.
Date of review: January 15, 2012

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

In short: Nice race, made a change from a long training run.
In full: The A20 is one of my out and back long training runs for, so I know the pathway quite well (and the problems that would occur with people running two abreast). I surprised myself with my time, though, and it made a nice change to get up to the top of the downs and into the lanes. The organisation was great. Plenty of parking, picking up chip and number on the day was smooth, plenty of loo roll(!), timing chip and rolling start seemed to work well (as there's not enough room on the pathway (pavement) for a real mass start). The cadets did a sterling job with the water stations. The hill at half way made it a bit more interesting. Whilst the race HQ at the hotel was fine, I didn't make as much use of the facilities that were supposedly available post race (swimming / sauna), as I only live a couple of miles away, and wanted to get home, but I think that if you'd travelled a fair distance then that would have been a bonus. I'll be doing it again.
Date of review: March 22, 2009

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

In short: Had its faults, but would do again.
In full: Yep, I was disappointed by the lack of water (although I was carrying some of my own), especially at the finish.
BUT - the route was good with nice views, the weather was perfect (cool and sunny). The wind was expected (it would have been better without the wind, but given the location, I thought we didn't do too bad). The start / finish was very spectator / child friendly, and parking wasn't a problem.
My only real quibble was that as I came back to the Rype for the last lap, the next person was a minute in front of me, and it wasn't obvious whether I should have gone round the Rype or just head straight for the finish line (I had to ask a spectator).
Date of review: March 9, 2009

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

In short: Nice country lanes, warm clubhouse.
In full: Nice race, over all too quickly!
Date of review: February 9, 2009

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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: Ouch - my thighs!
In full: My first 1/2, so just finishing was a PB for me. Nice views from the downs along the way back. Very well organised, and a big thankyou to all the marshals and spectators who kept up the encouragement. Not overly hilly (about usual for this area of the country), but enough to make my legs ache. Perfect weather also helped make a great morning.
Date of review: October 22, 2007

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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		80%

In short: Great route, great organization and nice trophy. Shame they couldn't organize the weather!
In full: My first 10k, and I achieved the time I'd set myself (I'd read about the bottlenecks and factored that in). Even though it was tipping down, much of it was under leaf cover, and that kept off the worst of the weather. Very well organized, and enough to keep the family happy while they waited for me to return.
Date of review: June 24, 2007

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