OK this is the 2nd time ive done this course with Tape 2 Events - 1st was santa run. This marathon was scheduled for March 2018, however due to snow it was cancelled at 11th hour night before (cant be helped get that) The race was rearranged for November....... so training starts all over again and it was reflected in numbers during the event. 260 for the half and 110 for full marathon. Its a flat marathon of 8 laps round the holme pierrepont water center. The marathon was very dull to be honest, course was very quiet, pretty much no spectators, and feed station was minimal, however i'll give credit to feed station staff - they were super positive and kind. I think cancelling the race and then rearranging for 9 months later killed the event - the numbers were very very low. Goody bag was ok, couple of sweets and medal again ok. The Xmas race was so much better than this - I think rearranging it for that duration just didnt work.
Hi Matt We’re sorry to hear you didn’t fully enjoy yesterday’s race 😪 we put a lot of effort into our events so don’t like to hear when the runner hasn’t had a good experience. We had 3 music stages around the 3 mile course playing disco music and with Marshalls on the microphone on each stage, all have had great feedback so really pleased with how that went as it’s the first time we’ve tried that. The feedstation was fully stocked with water, electrolyte, cola, 4 types of sweets, 2 types of cake, banana and Mars bar and again has received great feedback for its variety, not really sure what else we could have added, I know I’ve done many a run that doesn’t have half of that lot. We did a survey about what people liked inside their goody bags and used this to base this events bag and the contents for all the distances (except fun run) were bottled water, banana, crisp, chocolate bars and sweets, the fun run received a sweet cone. Unfortunately, there’s not much we can do about spectator support although we know you had lots on the day which was fantastic to see and the little ones in your support crew received a sweet cone that was left over from the fun run, not to mention bananas we had them coming out of our ears lol!! They were so grateful and sweet. Again, sorry you didn’t rate the race but we really enjoyed supporting you and Helen around the course the support you gave each other was fantastic. Hope the knees ok too 😬😬 Many Thanks Time 2 Run Events Team - Time2Run Events