My Event Ratings

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

In full: I am never doing this again, way too overcrowded, with too many narrow spots, it was like being in a bread queue!
Date of review: October 18, 2009

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

In full: Not one of my best performances this year but would like to run this again. Not enough toilets and the fill your own goody bag was a bit confusing.
Date of review: October 12, 2009

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

In full: Scenery great, organisation great, goodybag great - this race is the best 10k I've ever done. Can we have a Swansea Half Marathon please!
Date of review: September 27, 2009

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

In short: Brilliant race!
In full: Great organisation, great course, great support, loved it! :)
Date of review: September 13, 2009

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Overall score		20%
Would you do it again?		No
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		20%
Organisation		20%
Value		20%
Beginner-friendliness		100%

In short: Useless - spend your money on something worthwhile like a pot of striped paint!
In full: I can honestly say that I should have looked before I leapt on this one. The organisation was non-existant, I spent more time queing for the bog (20mins) and to cross the start (45mins) than I did running. The stewarding was appalling as people were left to blunder across the road and into the path of runners (I had one collision and witnessed others). Goody bags at the end a free for all anybody could and did help themselves. They had the timerity to charge £5 for a timing chip.

It amounted to nothing more than fraud!
Date of review: September 7, 2009

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

In short: By runners for runners the best sort of race to do.
Date of review: September 7, 2009

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

In short: A curates egg - good in places!
In full: I did the first leg of the relay and did not experience the significat problems that happened in the other stages of the race - of which there were many.
Date of review: June 7, 2009

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

In full: A good taster for anyone thinking about doing the Bristol Half as it covers a lot of the course.
Date of review: May 10, 2009

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

In short: Not my sort of race.
Date of review: May 3, 2009

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

In short: Useless organisation!
In full: Just like last year the start of the race was delayed as a result of 'plod' not being able to clear the congestion on the course - why didn't they shut the road earlier, like they do in Bristol? Cretins! Anyway we had to hang around for half an hour (which is an improvment on last years hour) whilst PC Plod got round to doing his stuff.
Getting to the start resembled Schindlers List in running gear as the mass shuffled to the start being shouted at by uniformed guards - sorry stewards and being barked at by two dogs thankfully they were on leads, but there was that ever present menace that they would be let off if somebody tried to make a break for it! Got to what probably was the start and were herded into a pen and listened to an Adolf Hitler tribute act that was apparently the warm-up aerobics, could have been Ken Dodd on crack for all we would have known!
During lap two there was a definite out-break of mass lemmingitis amongst the crowd as they started to run across the course at will and I was nearly involved in a collision when some daft tart with a battering-pram decided to use the pelican crossing to stop the race for her to cross. She hit the bloke in front of me who gave her a mouthful as did I. Where the hell were the race officials to stop this sort of thing from happening - in other words WHERE WAS THE OFT CURSED HEALTH & SAFETY?
This was a slight improvement on last year - in other words they had enough of them, but the medal could have been for a primary school sports day - very poor.
Will think long and hard next year before wasting my money on Bath again.
Date of review: March 15, 2009

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