My Event Ratings

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

In short: Well orgainsed PB race
In full: Well-organised race although my partner and I both had Garmins that measured our run as 10.15k Did anyone else find it long?

Would definitely do this race again as it had good parking and lots of space. A short walk from the finish to the race village was a good idea to warm down. Also, the post-race massage was very good for us decrepit oldies!
Date of review: September 2, 2012

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Overall score		20%
Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		80%
PB potential		100%
Atmosphere		60%
Organisation		20%
Value		40%
Beginner-friendliness		60%

In short: Organisers - how can you take people's money and sleep at night after this timing fiasco?
In full: Organisers - these are the issues you need to deal with.

1 Your basic task is to get the runners' times right. My time and placings changed twice and are still not right. A lot of people's gun and chip times are exactly the same even though they could have been nowhere near the front at the start.

2 There was a mat across the run-in a few yards before the finish line that most people thought was a 'timing' mat and they therefore stopped their watches - and even stopped running. What a stupid idea to put it there.

These two things were enough to ruin this race. The worst thing is that a lot of people will probably do it again next year because of the PB potential and not because of these issues.

Organisers - if you can't do it, DON'T!
Date of review: March 15, 2012

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

In short: Good and could be even better with just a couple of easy improvements!
In full: Start very cramped with slow runners caught at the front but very good value for money with an excellent shirt a the end; do much better than all the cotton ones usually handed out.

My only grumbles would be not enough loos and the fact that it said markers are every 1k but in fact they were every mile. I always feel a 10K race should have K markers.

More obvious start and finish signs would help but for a cheap and cheerful run this is very good. I don't know how they do it at the price.

Other than that a great race to go for a PB
Date of review: January 5, 2012

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Overall score		80%
Would you do it again?		Maybe
Details:
Scenery		60%
PB potential		20%
Atmosphere		80%
Organisation		100%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		80%

In short: Water by Lidl, course design by Marquis de Sade!
In full: Killer hills esp the last one from about 4-4.5k! Add the heat and the wind and you've got just about the most challenging race in the Midlands. Couldn't run as fast downhill as I wanted as they were so steep but this is a real challenge. If you can run here you can run anywhere.
Date of review: August 24, 2009

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

In short: As an inexperienced runner I was nearly mown down by huge tractors. Not enough water stations.
In full: I agree with the comments about the tractors. I'm 57 and was doing only my third half marathon i my life. Finished in 2:00:27and could have done without having to dive into hedges to dodge four or five of these vehicles. Although others have praised the water stations I thought there should have been more - a four mile gap between 3 and 7 is too much on a warm day - or any day for that matter. On the positive sideit was well organised with easy parking.
Date of review: July 27, 2009

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

In short: Nice course but maybe difficult to PB - lots of small but challenging hillss
In full: Nice run round country lanes. Lots of families there with the kids doing the fun run. I wonder if they got the measurements of the main course right as the race map showed the start being past the pub whereas it was quite a way short of it and if no-one had adjusted all the markers it would obviously make the first 1k longer and the last 1k very short. I say this because my first 1k was 6:28 (which I find hard to accept) and the last was 5:09 - a big difference.
Even the downhill stretches had some short sharp uphills and it wasn't at all like it looked on MapMyRun! Overall a nice event, with a good T-shirt. Having travelled from Bham Ididn't go to the Pub after but would have liked to!!
Date of review: July 5, 2009

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

In short: Warm 10k and very hilly for 6k of it. Fast finish.
Date of review: June 1, 2009

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