Manchester Half Marathon

Loved running MCR half! Although a little disappointed with no T-shirt, medal was awesome! Plenty of water & fuel stations with toilets around the course.

Not impressed. No parking close by this year added travel time and costs. Poorly organised start pens, stood freezing for over 40 minutes waiting to start. (2hour pace pen) Course was well marked and traffic free. Very flat and ideal for a fast time. 👍.
Aid stations were poor, last one was running out of water when I went through. 👎👎.
Everyone I know measured it at 13.2 mile plus on GPS so didn’t seem accurate and frustrated a few people running on pace.
Finish was horrendous, I needed water, was pushed into athlete village by “security” plenty of Erdinger on offer but no obvious water. Ended up coming out of village about 1/2 mile from family, dehydrated and starting to shiver. By the time I got to family I was bordering on hypothermic and dehydrated.
Personally I found event staff at finish awkward and unhelpful. Security staff not runners?
I won’t be going back.

My first visit to Manchester for a race. We used park and ride and it was awesome, very easy to get to the start. Despite the weather it was a great course, very flat and perfect for a PB. The finish however was a real let down. No t shirt and the goodie bag was not great, though I did enjoy the beer. I think for the price, more could be done. Not bad, not the best though.

Really well organised. Great course for a first half marathon attempt. I’ll hopefully be back next year.

Ice bath was great.
Disappointed that there was no water to hand at the end.
Felt light headed at the end and was just told to move out of the way!
Good water and gel stops

A well organised event. Great atmosphere, fantastic crowd support and a relatively challenging course. Bring on next year.

The organisation and event village were great, including a huge screen with a finish line live stream.
The volunteers were spot on promptly getting water and gels to runners and offering encouragement.
The only thing I found difficult, was that I like to run in barefoot shoes, and the tarmac around the course is really bumpy (stoney) which really tenderised the bottom of my feet and I looked for any tarmac which was smooth to try and take advantage of.
But other than that and a few unexpected gradients, it was a great event!

I was surprised not to get a goodie bag or a t-shirt.... in every run I have ever done I have received a t-shirt to remember the occassion :(

Nice flat course, perfect for your first half. Great atmosphere and very well organised. Fab medal too!

Really good course and an enjoyable event. Plenty of pace makers throughout then different waves too. Closed roads and amazing support road side.