This Years Event Ratings
Rated Event: 93.333%
Roadgod wrote:
Great event on a super course, well signed and well attended. No - nonesence timig procedure. Only minor gripe is sometimes signs covering 3 routes were confusing, and a bigger use of "Long route ahead" etc would be great. Will do this event again, a great start to the season on an interesting course!
Rated Event: 84.444%
jmhk1 wrote:
great day, nice route, good feed stop. yes there were a few things that could have been better but so what, its a sportive, a bit of fun on a sunday. not the olympics
Rated Event: 48.889%
AnthonyForshaw wrote:
Just thought the event ws a real disappointment. The web-site was very professional, but so many simple things were not right. The feed station was chaotic and quite poorly positioned on the road. The final return at HQ was unclear, so most riders rode round the car park instead of down the finishing straight. The drink bottle freebies were really crappy and gave the impression of an event "Done on the Cheap". I know its the thought that counts, but surely it would be better to twist the arm of a sponsor to provide a quality product, as done by Polocini !! In my kitchen trophy room of freeby drinks bottles this will be the first to go to re-cycle.
In summary, I would not recommend this event as it lacks total charisma and can only think what it would be like in bad weather. I really think the organisers should take note of the Polocini events as it is just so much more appealing, whatever the weather
Rated Event: 76.667%
davehutchins wrote:
good event. bit tricky to find and soon ran out of carpark space. feed station on 80 not very good, small table with high5 tank, and a few bananas and flapjacks.
Rated Event: 76.667%
Andy H wrote:
An excellent season opener in a really nice area , My only 'gripes' are a/. although the course was well signed, at the HQ it would have been useful to have been given a little better guidance as I wasn't sure if the queue I'd joined was for the gents or for number! Which leads well into b/. there were only two male toilets (that I could find) which meant lengthy queues. and c/. The 'free pie' at the finish wasn't cooked, raw pastry and hard potato, indigestible!
Rated Event: 80.000%
Emmay wrote:
A really enjoyable day with quick and easy collection of race number and goody bag, great facilities at HQ, lovely scenery but with just a few niggles over the route marking and at the end it wasn't completely clear which way to finish in the school grounds or where the finish line was
Rated Event: 84.444%
awhitehead wrote:
Good route for the time of year; always seems to get good weather. The finish down the A6 was a little busy but hard to see how to improve; it took me around 30mins to sort the times into order with ratings/average speeds etc so this would've been nice to see instead of just random times shown on the website.
Good overall event and more challenging than previous years. Well done Torelli.
Rated Event: 77.778%
John59 wrote:
I would do it again!
Rated Event: 92.222%
NeilVose wrote:
Excellent course and very well organised. I don't see how you could get lost as not only was there signage but also red arrows on the road. One sign had been moved, but this was the only place I went wrong. Good to see pies and mushy peas at the end. Good warm up for the Cheshire Cat so well done to all.
Rated Event: 42.222%
MartinHall wrote:
I worked my socks off, trained really hard to try and post a decent time. Due to the signage towards the end i got confused and ended up on the 80 route instead of the 50. Once climbing the large steep climb and realising i was lost, lost all my momentum, cadence and enthusiasm. Because i knew that i was doing the 50 mile flat sprint, i put a lot of effort in to the flat 50 and when i had finished the climb i had nothing left and hit the wall.
Dissapointing i complete at least two sportives a month throughout the season and i have never got lost before.
Rated Event: 72.222%
JohnDiggle wrote:
Very good.
Rated Event: 78.889%
ChrisBurley wrote:
Excellent ride, well organised, excellent facilities
Rated Event: 30.000%
lawrence wrote:
ok were do i start sign in was ok, did not get a goody bag .it wasnt clear were to start . but the main problem was the the route markers. you could'nt tell the difference if you were doing 50 miles or 80 miles , give different colours for each route please ,and when i finnished i could not find the man doing the timings give him a hi viz . but the weather was nice .
Rated Event: 52.222%
caveman2905 wrote:
Total climbing 1088m not 734m as stated.
