My Event Ratings

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

In short: Good....but don't send all the marshals home!
In full: Great facilities at the beginning. Good parking, loos etc etc. Good marshaling along route during most of the race, but some very grumpy/irate drivers. At one stage a shadow came over me, I turned and saw a bus right behind me, which was a little unnerving. The goody bag was a little lacking, but as someone else said it is still a fairly new race.
My main gripe was the marshaling later on. One lady in our team came in right at the end and all the marshals had gone home. Our team mate actually got lost because there was no one there to direct her. Dreadful experience for her. No matter how slow, you surely need people still out on route, unless you send a sweep up car along to collect people and finish the race. She was very upset.
Date of review: March 12, 2012

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Overall score		100%
Would you do it again?		No
Details:
Scenery		100%
PB potential		60%
Atmosphere		100%
Organisation		80%
Value		80%
Beginner-friendliness		100%

In short: Experience of a lifetime
In full: Fantastic experience. Only said I wouldn't do it again because once is enough for me! Am sticking to half marathons from now on. Support is simply amazing. The only real downer was that they ran out of lucozade gels at the 22 mile station very early on. I was depending on that gel!!. Bad I thought to run out that early. Someone got the numbers really wrong.
Date of review: April 26, 2010

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

In short: Great race, brilliant finish!
In full: Second year I've done this. Organisation great. The finish is brilliant, into the Madjeski Stadium. Would highly recommend.
Date of review: March 24, 2010

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

In short: Well organised, fast race.
In full: Loved the scenic loop, thought we could have more of this rather than the trek down the A20. Surely enough countryside around there to avoid the main road? Other than that great.
Date of review: December 27, 2009

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

In short: Good event. Well organised. Not sure why we had to run on the boggy common rather than roads on the last 1km
Date of review: November 15, 2009

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

In short: Good Race, well organised with a good hill to get stuck into!
In full: Thought it was a great race. Good mixture of club runners and those a bit less serious! Hill was a challenge, but once past that the route was mostly down hill. Yes there was traffic, but that was to be expected (would have been surprised if they had closed the roads down for a local 10K race!) and the marshals in the most part were really good. Some drivers a little grumpy, but don't really blame them! MC man at start and finish was great and got people smiling.
Date of review: October 19, 2009

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