My Event Ratings

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

In short: Superb organisation, nice course, friendly people, beautiful town.
In full: Really enjoyed this, despite the inevitable pain. The organisers say they want to be "the UK's favourite regional marathon" and every aspect of the race suggests they mean it. Organisation was impeccable - and impeccably friendly - throughout. Full of nice touches like really well organised baggage area (zero waiting time), good post race massage, long sleeve technical T (just the thing heading into the winter months), race directors shaking hands personally at the finish and so on. Running on country lanes most of the way but the level of support when you go through the various (extremely pretty) villages is something else. Chester is such a charming and historic town, it makes a great race weekend base for strolling round. Just one note of caution - the course has PB potential, but is not a super-flat or super-fast course like Berlin, Abingdon or Edinburgh. There are a couple of strategically placed hills in the later stages which lead to a lot of big positive splits. If you are only focused on a PB and care nothing about any other aspect of the race, go somewhere else. If you want an all round feelgood race experience, do this.
Date of review: October 9, 2012

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

In short: Fabulous scenery takes your mind (partly) off how hard the going is
Date of review: October 3, 2010

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