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@goji @Roger Topham

 my opinion may be a little biased as it was my debut, but overall I would recommend  it as it's virtually flat, only 7k runners this year so good for a PB. The crowd's support was brilliant, very often spectators were handing chocolate bars and water (is it common?).

I'll be running this one too, it's gonna be my debut . Apparently the course is mainly flat the only climbs are on/under the bridge(s). good luck cardiff crew and everyone else taking it on

this is the 2009 route:

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/22471640

 I found on the net, but the 2011 one was exactly the same

Anthony, I'm 37, started running 2-3 years ago, run the 10 miler sep 2011 trying to finish below 1:30hrs. as I was reaching 6-7km there was an older bloke running at similar pace so we chatted for a while finding out that our target time were the same. then he had to wait for his colleague and told me to keep going. sadly I 'died' on the 13km mark and saw him passing by with his 'struggling' colleague. I congratulated him after as he finished in 1:26 while I only managed mere 1:31:26. I checked the results later - he was in vet70+ category.... flipping hell, I wanna be that fast when I'm 70

Rebekah - that's how I noticed a woodpecker 5 yards away from me only because I heard it knocking the tree - this would never happened had I my ipod with me.

Good luck everyone running VLM, hope to see you here next week bragging about your new PBs

btw, 6.71 miles for no sauce team today