My Event Ratings

Overall score		40%
Would you do it again?		No
Details:
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		20%

In short: Chaos!
In full: This was my first half marathon and I was really disappointed. I’ve never before taken part in a race that hasn’t had loos at the start. The baggage point was just a row of tables that you left your bag behind and hoped it was still there when you got back. (Mine was but not where I’d left it or anywhere near where I’d left it in fact!) Either half the mile markers just weren’t there or I missed them because the ones I did see were really small. For the first few miles the bottlenecks around the shopping streets were dangerous and frustrating. My near misses included posts, a woman pushing her child, in his pushchair, right through the running crowd and a Marshall’s arm which swung out, narrowly missing hitting me in the head as he was giving a spectator directions. At the end we did manage to get over the finish line (I’ve heard some people had to queue to get over the finish line!) but once there we had to queue for about 15 minutes to get out of the pen and in the pouring February rain it was freezing. Such a shame and I won’t be doing it again.
Date of review: February 22, 2010

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