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The Lifestyle Renault Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon
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Good luck to all those entered!
EmmaC - hadn't realised you were one of the Asics 26.2 crew. Will be keeping a close eye on your training in the run up to the TW HM - congrats on the selection
Could Ethiopian star go for a new course record?
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Ethiopian-star-new-course-record/story-15189519-detail/story.html
Great to have Dame Kelly back again to start the race and hand out medals and also for the support once again from Richard Whitehead.
Thanks
Hi Elizabeth. Unfortunately the deadline for transfer of numbers has now passed (was 12th Feb).
Just a gentle reminder that it is against UKA rules to give your race number to anyone else and TW Harriers do ask you don't swap numbers under any circumstances.
Hey DUNC1... If you're who I think you are, great result at Isle of Oxney. That's the way to come back from injury!
No injuries luckily...........just a lack of interest
.
I may have got the racing bug again
? I'll find out after my next event..........
Assumed it must have been injury! I ahve seen you out running though when i've been training.
Hopefully you've got the bug back - TWH would appreciate those times in the KGP this year!
For newbies, save something for Spring Hill at around the halfway point (the second main climb - the first one is much shorter). It is steep in the first half and a mile long with 2 false summits although it does get easier once you pass the pub about 2/3rds of the way up. When you get to the national speed limit sign you are just about at the top. The last 3-4 miles are 'rolling' (and relatively quick).
Good luck to all and have fun.
Welld one Genghis!
Thanks to all that took part yesterday. The conditions were perfect and hopefully you all acheived your goals, whether that be a new PB, time target ready for VLM or just to get round in 1 piece! both male and female course records were smashed too.
It's a great shame some lightfingered participants managed to ruin the finish for those over 2hrs by half-inching the goody bags but if you missed out, email the harriers and we'll get something out to you.
An excellent race and super slick organisation -with regards to the goody bags I spoke to someone at the help desk who gave me a museli bar and some crisps with apologies so no problems there. Having seen someone in the changing rooms with six packets of said crisps on him why not dish out the goody bags with the T shirts next year to avoid people helping themselves to more than one bag?
This was the only niggle in an otherwise fantastic day - well done to the organisers and I will be back next year!
Had a great race yesterday and thank you to everyone who organised it. Pity about the goody bags going awol but unfortunately this does happen if people are left to collect them themselves rather than them being handed out.
I finished in 2:10 and had the most amazing welcome from a young man who made me feel really special and shook my hand when he handed me my medal. For a slower runner like me it was wonderful as I'm usually referred to as a 'fun runner' even though I train really hard. Many thanks to him - anyone know who he was? He had prosthetic limbs like Oscar Pistorius.
Huge apologies for the goody bag fiasco. We made 2200 bags up so there should have been enough. Email us on halfmarathon@twharriers.org.uk and we'll get something out to you. Next year they'll be under lock and key! We had a group of volunteer school children on the job so they didn't realise the naughty ways of some runners.
Glad you all enjoyed. Provisional results are now up at http://www.sportsystems.co.uk/ss/results/Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon/868
Photos are all up on www.sportcam.net
See you all next year
I thought the day was fantastic, and I was especially impressed with the marshals on the loo's! I finished in over 2 hours, and it took awhile to find a drink, but the 1.50 pacer came rushing over with some bags from somewhere. These things happen, and I think that the medal and the t-shirt were fab. Tunbridge Wells should be very proud, and it would be a shame if it receives negative feedback.
If I was to offer any advice on improvements, the obvious would be to get someone to actually hand the bags out. The second would be that the announcer at the finish had the names of the runners to hand. I was watching the tail enders come in, and it would have been fab for them to have had a name mention.
Thanks for a great day!
Redhead, were you running for Alzheimer's?
Obviously we take all constructive criticism on board and try to make improvements.. which is why we get rated so highly. If people complain about the loos, we get more and then also put in a marshal to speed up the queue etc.. etc... etc..! but there's only so much we can do.
Anyway.. you're right.. we do need to make sure the goody bags are handed out.. they were meant to be, but on the day things got a little hectic and the school kids weren't quite able to manage it. Next year they'll be under lock and key!
at least no-one was caught weeing in anyone's garden this year!!
Thanks Redhead.. good old JJ
hope to see you all again
Snuffles, there was still some weeing in gardens - I saw 4 men emerging from the bushes in peoples gardens at various points along the route. They just didn't get caught this year.
Redhead - I was to the right of you at the start! I was wearing a Fetch top.
Next time I will say hi
Another brilliant event! This was my third time doing the TW Half, and it's handsdown my favourite! And somehow I manage to PR every year, which also rocks
Managed to take 8 minutes off my PB half-time, and 13 minutes off my time from last year--Was completely shocked, as I was purely in "just survive!" mode going into it. 
Thanks again for another wonderful race.