have just seen you got a new PB. WELL DONE!!!

Sarah

I think the Runnerworld event ratings are fairly good…. certainly if you see a race scoring lower than 80% on “would you do it again” then you can treat it close to a poor ebay seller rating… for reference BPTT gets high 90s, cool local races like wokingham and reading half score in the 80s and 90s (but reading used to score much lower!), the mildly expensive but professional Kingston (Human Race) races score in the 90s, and there are fortunately very few races which score as low as the British 10km – a stunning ***51%*** (and most people still wonder how it scored that high)

Local races that I know of as good (from personal experience) are:
- Jan – Serpies New Years Day 10km
- Feb – Wokingham Half
- March – Reading Half
- April – Thames Towpath 10 miles
- May – Richmond Half marathon (not the most scenic route but flat!)
- June – Stragglers club 10km championship (you have to be a member though!)
- July – Windsor triathlon (expensive though!)
- August – dunno – I’m too busy doing tris!
- September – Windsor Half (expensive and hard work – but lovely)
- October – Nike 10km and Cabbage Patch 10 miles (especially recommend the latter)
- November – Brighton 10km (really good)
- December – BPTT Xmas day followed by a swim in Hampton open air pool

A bit further afield I`d also recommend the Milton Keynes Half in March, the Orpington Marafun (a personal favourite) and the Abingdon marathon.

Others have told me excellent things about:
- the Wimbledon 10km races
- the Regents Park race series
- the Maidenhead 10 race
- the Elmbridge 10km
- the Staines 10km
- the Dysart Dash 10km
- Leatherhead 10km
- Sutton 10km
- the Great South Run (but not as favourable a set of reports for the Great North!)
- the 2:09 series of races….

In general most races are good… there really are very few bad races….

(waffle… waffle… waffle… waffle…)

Oh yeah, well done on the new pb!

Wish they had a time trial locally to me