Can you fix the weather!

Would prefer The Martian Race a few weeks earlier in the year, for a better chance of a reasonable temperature. Understanding that March is too early, to avoid the risk of mud on the common.

Also, several of us were nearly tripped by a small dog running around our legs over the wetlands. Happens to me regularly on Horsell wetlands & common. To reduce the risk of accidents, dog walkers should be required to use a short lead for unruly beasts that chase around runners.

A few observations / suggestions:

1. Drinks should be available for runners at the finish
2. Coffee truck should serve food as the one last year did. Yes there were queues then but no one complained.
3. Shame the vilage area could not be bigger. A beer ''tent'' would be a great addition.
4. The increase in the numbers of toilets this year was, imo, very unnoticeable, with large queues evident.
5. Supply water misters on course for the runners to run through?
6. I was asked by one of the organisers if the numbers could be increased from 900. I immediately thought yes why not, but there would need to be more parking room and I'm not sure if McLaren could offer that.
7. Expand the range of merchandise? The stall on Sunday looked a bit sparse. Please do not have the logo in plastic as its extremely sticky. Better if they are printed. Also, imo, the large logo should be on the reverse, with a small one on the left chest area.

Very well run and all volunteers were super friendly and supportive along the route. Definitely running again next year.

My first time running the Martian race. Great event, loved every minute of it (well nearly!)

The only minor issue was the PA was not loud enough - couldn't hear anything!

Great run, really well organised. Due to heat would an 08.30 start be better?

Great well organised event, thanks to the friendly volunteers, nice medal, will be back next year!

Well marked course with supportive marshals.

A big thank you to the ladies at the on course water station for getting extra bottles of water so those of us slower runners didn't run out.

I think to would be better for these races to start earlier . The weather seems to be getting hotter and hotter each year and trying to run in these conditions, is tough. My race only had a short amount of open areas but I saw so many people race off and stop and start walking as they couldn’t keep it up. When walking him through the Common towards the Wetlands , I saw the 21km runners through the open fields really struggling, most of them walking . If the races started earlier, it might help . Great to have massage facilities at the end . Thank you.

Could think about asking runners to line up roughly in order of expected times especially for the big field events. I ran the 10k and took 18 seconds just to cross the line and spent the first kilometer dodging past some fairly slow people who had started at the front of the line-up

It was hard not having distance marked out, and small number running the half made me feel that I was on my own for the majority of it but I guess that meant it wasn't too busy!
Great parking and plenty of loos