My Event Ratings

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

In short: Bargain, scenic, well organised
In full: £4 for a well organised race in nice scenic surroundings, and you get a t shirt, cuppa and cake - bargain. A nice warm-up for the XC season. I always look forward this one.
Date of review: September 28, 2010

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Overall score		40%
Would you do it again?		No
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		80%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		20%
Value		60%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: The organisers need to get their act together
In full: I can only concur with all the comments about the baggage area disorganisation, the lack of organisation for starting line up, the highly congested first few miles (add to that lots of street furniture like bins, posts, benches and cafe boards to negotiate), the lack of mile markers, and the finish line queues.

If they insist on using The Lanes as part of the course they must be later on in the race when the field has spread. The present course cannot support 6000+ runners.

People having to queue to get across the finish line in a race is inexcusable and just very poor organisation.

This could be a very good race but it needs to be better organised. I won't be doing this race again unless I can see evidence that they have sorted out all these problems.

I notice that all the reviews rate the organisation between 20 and 40% but the overall rating for this seems to have ended up as 60%. How does this work?
Date of review: February 21, 2010

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