My Event Ratings

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

In short: No comparison to last year
In full:
All i can say is that i have to eat my words this year after running it last year and there being nothing but hold ups and bad planning this year they seem to have got their act together the start areas were bigger the race got under way spot on time the course was marshalled a lot better
They kept their word about change they did away with wave start they had last year which and they made the start areas bigger so you weren’t crammed tight they closed the roads earlier and must have been reopening them as the last racer went through as there was no hour wait on the bus to get back to the car
All in all i cannot fault this year’s race they seem to have cracked the organization side if next year’s race is done the same them good on them

Date of review: March 8, 2010

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

In short: well organized and fun to run
In full: this was the frist ever race me and the we did it gave me the bug to do more even my wife loves running it.
it's well oraganized the atomsphere is great this year how ever when we got to the finish they had run out of medals and you had a marshal wrighting race numbers down on a bit of paper must admit thought we won't get these but 3 weeks later what came in the post but are medals and an extra T-shirt
Date of review: December 11, 2009

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

In short: race was ok let down by the organisation
In full: i ran the bath half Marathon this year and although i enjoyed the day some aspects of the organisation left a lot wanting, they were supposed to close the roads at 10 which they never did which led to a half hour delay to the start which because the starting areas were so small meant you had to stand there getting cold as you had less room than a sardine and could just about shuffle from side to side it also meant you could not do the pre race warm up, not only because of the space but from where i was you could only see a small spec that was the person taking it and as for some of the slower starters they were round a corner and would have needed x_ray specs

the bath course is run in a loop which meant that at about 4 miles the leader came past us, we all had to move over to the left but boy did you have to be quick as we had an over enthusiastic marshal on a push bike going hell for leather and as some people weren't quick enough he simply went through them, at one stage of the race a first aider went into the back of someone

once we had finished we were all marshalled down a side road to be detagged and collect goody bags. What wrong with that? I hear you say, the problem was the side road turned into a narrow lane and you're back to the sardines again, nearly got tripped up on more than one occasion

there were good meeting points, found the other half no problem, it then took us an hour to get back to the car as we had done as they had surggested and used the park and ride which was on the outskirts and as people were still running we had to wait for the roads to reopen

i have entered again this year and in their defence in this year's newsletter they have taken on board the comments made about this year and are making changes, time will tell

Date of review: December 11, 2009

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

In short: fun to run well organized
In full: it has a wonderful atmosphere and i found that every one was frienly it was the first half maraton i have ever run and i enjoyed the race from start to finish
Date of review: December 11, 2009

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