My Event Ratings

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

In short: Flat as you could possibly wish. Rather windy in 2010 but loads of people still got PBs. Recommended.
Date of review: March 28, 2010

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

In short: The scenery is more interesting than you might expect and the course has good PB potential if it's not too windy.
In full: Good single lap route and surprisingly scenic for this part of the fens. The organisation went smoothly at all stages, although they could have been a bit faster in sorting out the water supplies at the end.

For this running of the race the wind was too strong from mile six onwards for me to crack my PB, but it was my fastest 10 miler for four years so shouldn't moan. Definitely a good one for a PB on a still day.
Date of review: October 25, 2009

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

In short: Great course, great organisation. Some undulations but nothing too scary.
Date of review: October 4, 2009

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

In short: A good course, fairly scenic, but definitely challenging. Too hard for a PB for me.
Date of review: April 17, 2009

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

In short: Fast, flat, yet still scenic and very well organised.
Date of review: January 18, 2009

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

In short: Beautiful views, terrifying hill at the start that you will have to train for to run up. Good mixed field with slower runners as well as nutters.
In full: The countryside is wonderful and the race starts in a field. After a rather informal start it's up that hill you go - about 1km of it. If you're doing the 10k there are some more climbs from about 6.5km and something quite serious up to 9km. The drop down to the finish was too steep for me to really let go without risk to life and limb - you can sprint the last 200m though.

This year was very warm, even for experienced runners, and the hills make it a non-starter as a PB route unless you spend all your training time running up the side of the Cheddar Gorge. But don't let anything I write put you off - you'll love it.
Date of review: June 9, 2008

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