Very grateful for the opportunity to enter the race after the closing date.

Maybe an extra water station next time, especially if it’s as hot as Hades again?

A great event. Friendly marshalls at regular intervals. Participants were also very kind and encouraging when I was struggling in the heat. Could have potentially done with more toilets/maybe another water station due to the extreme heat

Our first Martian/lions event as a family. More water required, especially when the temperatures are so high.
I would suggest an earlier start time before it gets too hot.

Please can we start at 8am as it was very hot running at 9:45. Great to have coffee and ice cream but queues were big, could we add more. Toilets would be good if dotted around the site. Overall great effort and very good, friendly day!!

On the whole it's a lovely race and well put on and supported. Good mix of terrain and not too taxing.
I will raise two points though -
1) The 21k was actually 20k - not a big deal as I was using is as a slow trail run trial.
2) We spent the second half of the first lap being passed by 10k runners. There are a lot of narrow paths in the last 2 miles. I felt constantly under pressure and in one case was barged into tripping - very poor form. I was also badly cut up by a 10k runner taking a racing line for his finish. I started the 2nd lap in a not so cheerful place half ready to run through to my car! Simple solution - start the 10k 30 minutes after the half.
The second point is a shame as the race is a trat for the venue, organisation and cheerfulness of the marshells.

some km/mile markers would be great next time

Distance wasn't 21km! It was sustained under 20km

I did this event last year and will continue to run it for many years as it is so well run, so friendly and the course is amazing. So many different challenging surfaces and perfect training preparation for any furute longer trail events. And the photos are included too, which is fab. The parking was very well organised and plenty of volunteers to help direct you. I guess the only thing that would be good is to have a drink sponsor at the end to hand out electrolyte drinks especially in that heat and maybe some haribos or bananas. This is more a suggestion for the half marathoners and possibly the 10k runners. Also to make it clearer where to line up to get your race bib. Some people were a little confused which queue was which. These are not negatives just nearly observations and recommendationsand by no means does it take anything away from what an amazing event it was for such a great cause. One more thing, when you announce the 2024 event, it maybe an idea to ask people to get involved with designing the medal so it gives more of a sense of involvement of the event and the person who's design is chosen can have a mention on the day. There seemed a lot more people than there was last year, which is great. It means its gaining traction and interest. Looking forward to next year's event already.

It was extremely hot, maybe it would be good to recommend runners to bring their own bottle that they can refill at the stations. One or two glasses of waters (x4) were not enough to keep hydrated.
I loved children received a proper medal, that made my son's day!
It may have been nice to have more cheering along the way, I found myself running (the half marathon) on my on most of the time and the heat made it really hard. All in all, I think it was a fantastic event for a great cause and I will be looking at participating again, but maybe not in the summer... Thanks!

Definitely better parking at McLaren and metal medals much better than wooden

Distance markers would good as I didn't see any on the 10k run.

Huge queue for the toilets

Great off road 10Km route which was very well sign posted. Super helpful organisation staff. Friendly bunch of people running. Only EBI is that I could have done with more water at the finish!

You had lots of volunteers at each corner which was fantastic and really helps.
Unfortunately near the end around 7.5k, there was a double corner, turn right, then a Y junction where you turn left. The volunteer was at the first corner and there was no signage to say turn left at the second calender, so I went the wrong way following some other runners (not in the event).
So great job with the volunteers, but maybe put two on junctions like that, or more signage.

Not a big issue but some of the front 10k runners got stuck behind the 21k runners in the woodland area where the path is a bit narrower. People were sporting in letting others pass but it did affect momentum and flow!

It would have been helpful to have the sign of km left on the course to help runners during the race.
Marshall didn't know distance left when asked on the course.
But well indicated otherwise.