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· 2018 Half Marathon ·

I ran this event on a free place as a presenter at the expo & a video creator making this race video https://youtu.be/RqqkiU7w1dc I have to say I loved this race. It was a whole weekend of running with the Night 5K on Fri, parkrun Saturday, the Half & the Mile on the Sunday. Over th weekend there’s 5 medals up for grabs. Focusing on the half marathon it starts on a really long straight street with bag drop inside the town hall (dry) lots of portaloos & a large grassed area with a decent race village. There’s pacers of varying speeds & the start was really good with music. It was a little congested in the first mile but soon thinned out & a massive turnout of runners made a great atmosphere. It’s in the town to start, then out onto country lanes, back into town going through the rugby ground & finishing through the epic gold gates (see video) The course was really easy to follow, good aid stations, marshals were everywhere you always had help if it was needed. The medal was amazing, it was shaped like the gold gates & had a spinning centre piece, really unique. The best part of this weekend was going up for weekend of running with friends, having a really good time & a good laugh, whilst running a cool race.