My Event Ratings

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

In short: Hilly trail race but good fun
In full: Very cold icy morning which meant some of the course was frozen underfoot. Not necessarily a bad thing as a rainy day could see this course being quite boggy in parts.

A nice pleasant run through Middleton Park trail and excellently organised and marshalled. Probably the best of the year and that includes for a couple of big marathons.

Nice to finish with a lap of the John Charles stadium running track.

Will definitely be back next year.
Date of review: December 5, 2012

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

In short: Brilliant organisation from Alan and his team.
Date of review: October 16, 2012

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

In short: Cold, wet and miserable.
In full: Good race despite the horrible conditions. Definitely a PB potential on a good day.

Shame about some of the organisation on the day but i'm sure that will improve next year.

The Manchester support was superb given the horrible rainy conditions. Hats off you.
Date of review: May 2, 2012

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

In short: Good race despite the weather
In full: Strangely enough I managed to hit a new PB by 35secs. Not bad going considering the damp/wet conditions, huge bottleneck at the start and the few climbs to contend with.

Although it was a good race, my major gripe (other than the unfortunate weather) was the amount of slow paced runners and walkers at the front near the start line. This cause a huge backlog of runners waiting to get running after crossing the startline. It must have been at least a couple of minutes before I managed to do anything that at least resembled some kind of running action. It also took the first couple of miles to get fully up to race pace due to dodging and weaving in and out of the slow runners/walkers who decided to start near the front before the gun went off.

Perhaps next year the organiser might consider pens depending on your predicted finish time.

All in all a good race and a big thank you to the 100s of council workers and volunteers that gave up their time to marshall the race. They did a superb job.
Date of review: June 20, 2011

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