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There said only two water stops which i and they thought was bad did, what do other people think?
Michelle
Definitely could have done with at least one other water stop...just because there was such a snarl up around the area where everyone stoppped! I found it pretty hard to drink out of plastic cups whilst on the move so ended with most of it down my front, which wasnt so bad i s'pose!
I thought the organisation was brilliant - thanks to all the friendly marshalls/water station people. As it was so hot, maybe a water stop at about 3KM might have been handy, but then it was clear in the race pack where the water was so we should have taken our own bottle with us!
Had a great lunch at G&D's ice cream shop - managed to have bagel instead of ice cream so my waistline won't take the strain.
All round a brilliant race - see you next year!
Bean (aka St Trinians girl!)
Can't wait to do another race, just have to decide which one!
I couldn't make it in the end.
Slight problem with my foot so decided to rest!
Will try again next year maybe.
Anyway I got injured at about 5k and hobbled to the direction of the park. Got near the first drinks where upon it got too painful to walk. A marshall called for a medic but 40mins later none had turned up at which point I hobbled off to find my folks and go home!!!
Note to the organisers: If you are going to move the start and not tell people until the actual day, you could at least wait a couple of minutes if people are still finding their way there!
Two other complaints whilst I'm at it: Near the finish I nearly got mown down by a couple of race officials driving a car down one of the narrow park roads against the direction of the race! I'm sure they wouldn't do that to the race leaders so why do such an idiotic thing to the slower ones?
Finally at the time when I arrived at the finish, about 58 minutes on the clock, they were so slow on opening a new finishing lane that the queue to the one in operation started well before the finishing line had been crossed!
I'm afraid that this year the organisation was not up to the usual high standards of this race.
This was my first ever race and I thoroughly enjoyed it (well I say this now, I didn't actually think so during the run...). Looks like I'm hooked, already looking out for the next race!
I loved the quiet streets, the absence generally of parked cars and the varied scenery but it seemed to me that it was mainly a fund-raising event and all a bit casual.
OK so they're not giving mementoes, but surely they could afford a time board at the finish and accurate KM markers?
The start was a chaos : I allowed 15 minutes from the tents with a visit to the loo as the announcer suggested.
But no announcements as to how long it might take to get there - the start road wasn't even on the distributed route map.
I was very pissed off to hear the start hooter when I was still walking to the start and then having to thread through a zillion plod runners to get going.
Oh yeah - and why couldn't they give proper details of the Park and Ride Scheme. I tried to get times of buses from the internet but failed.
go and get the Oxford Mail all the races who finish should be in there well that what the www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk site said otherwise email town and gown and see.
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/sport/towngown.html
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/sport/2004/5/townandgown_2004.shtml
enjoy!
I was on a different bus - I was running near the other two schoolgirls during the race though.
I parked in Cowley and got a "normal" bus (ie not park and ride) which worked quite well - apart from a few strange looks!
Off to tell my friend to buy and Oxford Mail!