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2011 Grunty Fen Half-Marathon (Ely Standard 21st)
 | | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A good value Half on virtually traffic-free roads.
In full: All the essetial ingrediants: well signed, easy (near) parking, rolls & cakes & teas etc, a nice flat course which we all know will nearly always be windy (altough the announcement of 70mph windspeed was a worry, until corrected to 17mph). Great supportive marshalls and plenty of water stations. Results available later in day, and chip times soon followed. Well done.
Date of review: September 12, 2011
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2011 Salisbury Trail 5-4-3-2-1 Marathon
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A well-organised event with beautiful scenery
In full: More road than usual for a trail run, makes for a good training run for an autumn road marathon. Lovely start up to Old Sarum, then views across Salisbury to the cathedral as you pass 2 miles. Only negative was the very busy road junctions (cars) to be negotiated at Wilton. The busy town streets were full of August tourists, but I was happy to put up with that for the enjoyable run past the cathedral, and along by the river. We were told distances were approximate, so not surprised to clock 26.8 for the marathon.
Date of review: August 15, 2011
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2011 Arden 9
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A well-organised run through charming countryside
In full: A fine event. Only small gripe: could have done with a carpark marshall a bit earlier as cars were flowing in to the relatively small already full car park and gillying around trying to find alternative parking. Perhaps even a marshall up the road to direct us to the station park.
Date of review: June 20, 2011
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2011 Burton 10
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: A great local race in a beautiful riverside setting
In full: Don't know why I never got around to doing this one before. Exceptional value. A shaft of sunshine would have set the riverside scenary off nicely but you can't organise everything! They organised everything else though!
Date of review: May 29, 2011
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2011 Kingsbury Classic 10K
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A lovely run by lakes and river
In full: The start was a bit narrow, but after the first half kilometre there was plenty of room. A very pleasant evening run which was enthusiastically marshalled. Well done all.
Date of review: May 11, 2011
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2011 Great Welsh Marathon
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: An excellent marathon to get a PB, but beware the weather.
In full: I had to pinch myself to believe I was in Wales! A flat marathon course and uninterrupted sunshine all day!! It was the latter that resulted in me feeling very dehydtrated for April .... and for my body looking like a negative photo of a running vest later in the day. Agree with comments earlier re commentator who made ordinary folks like me feel a bit special for a few yards at the finish. My wife said he kept up the banter non-stop. Small gripe was it seemed a long gap after water at 3.5, and then to get 2 water stations about a mile apart at 8/9 miles.
The next day started grey & rainy so we were very lucky.
Date of review: April 12, 2011
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2011 Vision Express Stafford 20
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A good value 20 mile trainiing run
In full: Not sure how they pack it all in, including T-shirt, at a price half others charge. 1st lap tough, and no drink for 6 miles. Only complaints: roads rather busy. Finishing marshall AWOL on turn-in at finish. Overall very good with main parking right by the start/finish.
Date of review: March 14, 2011
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2011 RNLI Reindeer Run - Dudley Zoo and Castle
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Not a 10K, more like 8.8K, but some nice touches
In full: A bit of a curates egg. The course at 8.8K was badly short. Not being allowed in until 45 mins before start time, and nowhere to shower or leave baggage was poor but we were aware of that. Half the course was off-road which was fine, but could we have been notified? On the good side, a charity run with a medal, a massage, tea, hot cross bun, an unusual place to run among the animals, including reindeer, made it quite memorable. Also one of the best warm-up routines (and boy did we need it) from 2 enthusiastic fitness guys
Date of review: March 6, 2011
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2011 Stourbridge Stagger 10
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 40% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Easy conditions compared to some years - my worst time!.....
In full: .....I guess that is tempus fugit for you. Can we have a blue towel next year please?.... I'm getting too much stick down our club for using the pink one.
Date of review: February 18, 2011
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2010 Coventry Sphinx AC Coombe 8
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Bitterly cold -7C as we arrived. Warmed up by a lovely run & welcome soup.
In full: Couldn't believe what we got for a tenner! A fine course, a long-sleeved running top, and soup. Agree with earlier comments re thankyou to cheerful marshals who must have been freezing. At least we got warm by running.
Date of review: November 28, 2010
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