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2012 Mizuno Reading Half Marathon
 | | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 80% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: A very smoothly run, enjoyable event.
In full: This was my first Reading half, it was a very well organised event.
Pretty full goodie bad, decent medal.
Fantastic crowd support, and I would definitely do this event again.
Date of review: April 1, 2012
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2011 Asics British 10K London Run
| | Overall score | | 40% | | Would you do it again? | | No | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 20% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 20% | | Value | | 20% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Too expensive, rubbish organisation, cheap tacky medal and t-shirt!
Date of review: February 26, 2012
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2011 BUPA Great North Run
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Amazing!!!
In full: Wow what a great day!
The GNR was my first HM, and I loved it, yes it's expensive and PB potential is based upon being in the correct pen at the start, but the atmosphere really is something else!
Crowd support is amazing, for an event of this size the organisation is spot on.
You get a lovely chunky medal, but for this entry fee I really do think you should get a technical shirt and not a cotton one.
Date of review: February 26, 2012
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2011 South London 10K
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 60% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Not too bad.
In full: Not too bad a race, a couple of roads to cross, the marshalls were great!
a good selection of snacks available at the end, the medal was ok, with the option of engraving for a modest fee.
A good value race that I would do again.
Date of review: February 26, 2012
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2011 Cabbage Patch 10
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 80% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: A great race, I love it!
In full: A fantastic race, the course is good, flat and fast.
It's on my doorstep, the marshalls were great, I loved the t-shirt.
The only improvement I would like to see is chip-chip timing as opposed to gun-chip timing.
Date of review: February 26, 2012
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2011 BUPA Great South Run
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 60% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Really enjoyable race.
In full: I really like the Great South Run, it's flat, it's fast.
The organisation was very good, it's not cheap to enter but I would definitely run this event again.
Date of review: February 26, 2012
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2012 Brighton Half Marathon
| | Overall score | | 60% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 100% | | Organisation | | 40% | | Value | | 40% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Nice scenery and atmosphere, but 13.5 miles!!!
In full: Quite a good race, the scenery was nice, the course would have been fast.
But I as well as so many others all recorded a distance of about 13.5 miles even though according to my garmin I ran mile splits all within 10 seconds of each other!
As others have said this was probably caused by an incorrectly placed U-turn cone.
Again as others have said the goody bad wasn't very good, the medal on the other hand was pretty good, also no free t-shirt but we knew that anyway.
I managed a pb of three and a half minutes, it would have been closer to seven and a half minutes if we ran 13.1 miles so on the whole the distance inaccuracy really spoilt an otherwise good event in my opinion as 0.4 of a mile is just way too much!
Date of review: February 19, 2012
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2012 Tadworth 10
| | Overall score | | 100% | | Would you do it again? | | Maybe | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 60% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 100% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: A very organised and enjoyable race, hilly in places so probably not great if you're after a PB.
Date of review: January 2, 2012
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2011 Perivale 5
| | Overall score | | 80% | | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 60% | | PB potential | | 80% | | Atmosphere | | 80% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 80% |
In short: Well organised race, fairly quick course, friendly encouraging marshalls.
Date of review: December 4, 2011
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2011 London Pride Run 10K
| | Would you do it again? | | Yes | | | | Details: | | Scenery | | 100% | | PB potential | | 100% | | Organisation | | 80% | | Value | | 100% | | Beginner-friendliness | | 100% |
In short: Great Race, well organised'
In full: The Pride 10k was a great race, very well organised, really good medal and goody bag.
I will 100% be back next year.
A big thanks is due to London Frontrunners!
Date of review: August 20, 2011
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