In reply to QuarryKid:
Thanks for the reply, now having done it a few weeks ago I agree - the refreshment stations could have been a bit more imaginative! I'd have killed for a mug of flat, room-temperature coke.
Really pretty setting, it's just a shame that the people on the big jog had to do one of the loops three times to make up the distance... and a friend of mine ran the half, which ended up being 16 miles instead of 13... a lot of people were a bit shocked at that!
Great race, and all the stewards were so lovely. I won "Best Hair", as voted for by at least seven different people.