My Event Ratings

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

In short: Definitely nothing left in the legs at the end of this. Great fun. Lots of lovely muddy puddles to splash through this year too. Excellent. And thanks for the water bottle too, v useful.
Date of review: November 18, 2012

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

In short: Lived up to expectations. Lovely race
In full: Visiting my home town from my exile in Kent thought I'd give this a go and thoroughly enjoyed it . Lovely race and the down hill gallop at the end was truly exhilerating. Well worth the uphill slog - which was great anyway cos of the views. V nice glass for memento too ... And, of corse, the bottle of wine! Will try to be back.
Date of review: April 16, 2012

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Overall score		100%
Would you do it again?		No
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Scenery		80%
PB potential		100%
Atmosphere		100%
Organisation		100%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		100%

In short: If any race could convert me from my determination never to do another marathon this wlould be it
In full: I was massively impressed by the efficiency and good humour of the marshalls at the busy road crossings. I don't know how you did it, but it worked. Loads of water stations also brilliantly manned. Can't think of a single bad thing. The bag drop queue also went down so fast you nearly had to jog to keep up. And I finished well under my four hour target! V happy with that for a marathon farewell run. Thanks loads to all involved.
Date of review: October 16, 2011

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

In full: The first time at a race I thought I might've put on weight there were so many jelly babies. lots of water and sponges very welcome. V well organised.
Date of review: July 18, 2011

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Would you do it again?		Yes
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PB potential		20%
Atmosphere		100%
Organisation		100%
Value		80%

In short: It was advertised as hilly. No one said you needed crampons
In full: Excellent fun. Really enjoyed this helped by getting a pair of " run tested" trail shoes for £15 at the stall in the clubhouse before the race - can't imagine i'd've managed without them.
Excellent marshalling; lots of them and all cheerful and encouraging.
Really good touch having a cotton, reusable goody bag. Cant fault this race
Was disappointing to see some runners discarding water bottles having been asked not to. No excuse for this, there were plenty of marshals and bins along the way.
Date of review: February 13, 2011

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

In short: Always love this race
In full: Excellent organisation and marhalls as always and the extra water station organised at the last minute in the heat was very welcome. Lovely place to run even though it doesn't have a single flat bit. The end is great - lovely downhill stretch with lovely view with just a tiny little uphilly bit at the end. The charity-collecting free massage was a great extra - much better than a medal and the shoe bag is always useful.
Date of review: July 12, 2010

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

In short: commercial and shouldn't be grand prix
In full: Only ran this because its in the Kent GrandPrix this year.
Was unimpressed by the positioning of the pacers - I thought I had put myself at about the right place at the start to aim for about 47/48mins... a few hundred people back from the start. But the pacers were all in front of me which meant that I had to get through blocks of people running with the 65, 60 and 55 minute pacers. Fine if its a fun run and not actually a huge problem for me really not being superspeedy, but must have been irritating for faster club racers who could not get to the start because of the crowds of runners getting near their pacers. Also the race kind of just started, there didn't seem to be any kind of countdown, I thought we were moving towards the start where in actual fact we had started... The organisation at the start let down all the really good marshalls, water station people and the excellent help desk staff.
Date of review: June 13, 2010

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

In short: crikey that was hot. Many thanks for laying on plenty of water - it was needed.
Date of review: May 23, 2010

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

In short: Exhilarating
In full: Thoroughly enjoyed running this - wouldn't have wanted to run a longer race under these conditions but that was a great way to wake up properly on a Sunday morning! The rain driven by that headwind was a bit sharp but must have been far worse for the marshalls just standing around in gales and rain, but they were without exception cheerful and very encouraging. Thanks for a great morning!
Date of review: November 1, 2009

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

In short: excellent race, thank you
In full: goodie bag had stuff really needed at end of the race... good drink, crisps - excellent thing to have - and a couple of energy bars - the finishing touch to a well organised
race.
Date of review: September 29, 2009

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