Royal Windsor Half Marathon & 10k River Trail Run

It was a great experience for my first half! It went well and everyone was so supportive and encouraging along the track. I appreciated the beautiful views and flat terrain. I made some great friends along the way and I felt great after completing it.
My only 2 suggestions would be:
- More aid stations; perhaps every 5 km would've been better if it wasn't possible to have more. Ideally every 4km would've been good. It was sort of stressful coming across injured people who didn't know when or where to get assistance (for anything from needing plaster to sprained ankles).
- Instead of using gels in addition to water, offering an electrolyte drink instead or offering lollies for that extra energy. As I had not trained on gels, I did not want to take one in-case my tummy didn't agree! so I was starting to feel like my sugar levels were dropping.
I have definitley learnt from this race, not to rely on the event for what I need in terms of wellbeing and that I should carry with me my own water, lollies etc to get me through; which is a fantastic thing to do anyway, so it was definitely a positive.

My husband and I really like the medals too, they are really neat! As we factored this run in to our holiday (as we travelled over from NZ to visit friends); I would 100% do this run again as I really enjoyed it!!

Great event. Really enjoyed it. Please thanks those who organised and run it. Two minor points - the amplifier speakers didn't work (they were very quiet) for the briefing and £5 just to keep you bag is a bit much when you have spent over £40 on entry fee.

Brilliant event, I will be back next year. The event was well organised, the nice weather always helps and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience!

A really lovely course along the river Thames. Slightly chaotic start in ‘waves’ which didn’t mean very much as couldn’t quite hear. Some places in the first fee km the path is very narrow and you couldn’t go at your desired pace. The km markers were a bit random - not just based on my gps but several others running around me also commented they were out. So don’t trust them to keep your pace!
That said the course was well sign posted and well marshalled with good number of drink and gel stops along the route. The atmosphere was good for a trail run but don’t expect crowds lining the route - it’s not that kind of run!

My only very minor criticism was the last 500m after the up and over road bridge (which was a bit of a killer at the final km!) was the signposting/marshalling ran out and it was a bit tricky to know what the precise final route was as by that point you were back in the main part of Windsor with tourists milling about and children playing on the grass. So a bit more delineation in the final point would have topped it.

All in all a really enjoyable run and I will definitely consider doing it again.

I enjoyed the run and the course itself (it is effectively my home track). However, my watch is pretty accurate and it said I had completed a half marathon even before I reached Alexandra Gardens. I accept trail runs are a bit awkward to measure but both the start and the finish were in different locations this year. Also everything seemed to be not quite ready either for registration or the run itself.

The path was okay but really disappointed by the atmosphere. There was none of it, no music even at the start to get people excited! felt very demotivated from the run. Also very little water stations. Expected more for an event that is £35!!

Course was fine, organisation was haphazard - e.g. sound system not working for warm up. £5 extra for bag drop seemed OTT. And after-event email referenced post-run guidance for sore muscles with links to pre-run prep articles. All a bit chaotic....

It is a very nice course, well organised, not to big and generally, very pleasant. I'd certainly run again in 2020.

The trail was very pretty although a little narrow in parts. It was a really enjoyable morning. I could really hear the race starters and I thought it was a little lacking in atmosphere and momentum but overall the organisation was good.

it was great - such a good local event great atmosphere, would have been nice to have a t shirt perhaps at the end