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2011 Cardiff Half Marathon
 | | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Marred by a longish section of Flyover
In full: Suppose it seemed a good idea but the flyover section was without atmosphere and added a few uphill drags.
Date of review: October 16, 2011
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2011 Rhayader 'Round the Lakes' 20
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Beautiful Course well organised
In full: Worth a special journey. I am Meant to be marathon training but this was the race I have been looking forward to. It lived up to its reputation definitely be back again.
Date of review: March 20, 2011
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2011 REVERSE 10
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: Nice race even with an extra loop.
In full: I enjoyed this despite a marshalling problem which saw a my group add nearly a mile. Shame Ponty wont have a chance to iron out the minor details if they return to the previous course as it was a really nice course with a decent hill to wake you up half way.
Date of review: February 20, 2011
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2010 Sirhowy Challenge
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 60% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: One of my highlights this year and last.
In full: Only niggle is that you come down so fast there are plenty of opportunities to go the wrong way.
Date of review: January 31, 2011
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2010 Roman Run 16
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: A Welsh Classic
In full: A life is not lived that does not include this race at least once.
Date of review: January 31, 2011
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2011 Lliswerry 8
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 40% |
In short: Great place to start as you mean to go on.
In full: Tried this last year and was slightly caught out by the sheer unadulterated flatness of the course. Came back a bit stronger this year and loved it all the way.
Nice T-shirt as well.
Date of review: January 31, 2011
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2011 Merthyr Mawr Christmas Pudding 10k Challenge
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 60% |
In short: The dipper looks much easier at the start than halfway up.
In full: Essentially a fairly masochistic warm up, an orderly queue, a chance to pretend you are about 4 again throwing yourself down an oversize sanddune and finally the race proper around the Ogmore estuary.
I tried to conserve energy up the dipper, felt I walked halfway, was exhausted at the top anyway and seemed to be behind about half the field.
Next time I am going to give it everything on the dipper and try and get ahead of the queue.
Date of review: January 31, 2011
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