A lovely flat scenic route. Loved the support throughout from so many other runners and the wonderful marshals. Fantastic event organisation - highly recommended!

Very well run event - thanks so much!

Prefer the "normal" route but understand the change was unavoidable

Was so hard for me at 18-22 miles and lovely staff and other runners kept me going! It took me 5hrs 25 and all other runners cheer you on as go past! One person said “dig deep” and it helped. Nice and small than overwhelming races which helped.
Thank you for making my dream of competing a marathon at 40 come true’!

Well organised, lovely atmosphere, well supported

It is so much smaller than the usual London races. I loved it. So friendly and it is gorgeous running along the river!

Thanks for a great day - My first marathon race event :) Only two points of feedback:
1 - The start was a little earlier than 10am and I was lucky enough to have my Garmin ready with GPS just in time, but a bit more of a countdown to the start (if not bang on 10am) would have been good.
2 - A few parts of the course were flooded - Being local, I knew this could have been the case, but I don't think all runners knew to expect this and the need to run through - I caught up with a few runners who had stopped wondering if they had gone the wrong way!
Apart from these two small points - The event was excellent and I would definitely recommend - Especially for first time marathon runners given the simplicity of the route and it being a very flat route. Thanks again, John Willoughby

what i really lacked was a snack/drinks stand at the marathon halfway turning point...it would have been a little reward for all the runners that they made it that far. also, it would have been nice if there were milestones along the way. otherwise very good.