Sittingbourne Striders 10 Mile

Overall Rating

4.7/ 5

67 reviews
Would you recommend it to others? Yes
How did you rate the scenery? 5/5
How did you rate the atmosphere? 5/5
How did you rate the organisation? 5/5
Do you think this was friendly to beginners? Yes

Amanda Callow

Excellent event

Such a well organised event, Sittingbourne Striders were fantastic, massive credit to the club. The route is hilly but also very pretty. Lovely facilities, easy parking, good refreshments, excellent job!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Kieran Baker

Lovely course with a warm welcoming feel

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Anonymous

Lovely local event, super friendly, good mix of abilities and some lovely hills!!!!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Anonymous

Challenging but enjoyable 10 mile

Extremely well run from beginning to end. Talking of ending the two hills in the last mile was an unexpected challenge and made the event even more memorable.
The whole event was very well run with friendly and encouraging marshals.
It was good to have an event with a selection of refreshments along the route and at the finish line.

Will be looking forward to next years event

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Gordon Glen

Well organised event

Impressed with number of marshals and how enthusiastic they were. Not entirely sure why there was a split start, though.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Keith Harvey

Very well organised from parking, bag drop, start, marshalling, road closures to finish line. It's a great event, a proper test.

Picky notes to make it even better. The start was a lot better than last year, but you still don't need to hold back the waves. Put people in waves, and then start them off together, Wave 2 is not catching Wave 1.
Spoke to a few Striders about enticing more clubs along. To do this it would really help if Running Club names were included in the results and filterable. Great event, it's a real credit to the club.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Joanne Hillman

Great route and encouragement from everyone involved.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Diane James

Outstanding marshalling and organisation

It was a tough course, but will definitely be back next year. Excellent organisation, good parking, great venue. Outstanding marshals.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Yuksel Polatoglu

Professional and friendly organisation. Hilly run!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Mel Fergusson

Great fun, friendly atmosphere

Apart from the awful hills (undulating does not cut it!) this was a fantastic race, great to start from somewhere with good toilets! Well done Striders, will be there next year, still having nightmares about Stockers Hill

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Jevon Moulton

Very well organised

Friendly atmosphere, challenging course. Marshalls were brilliant

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Anonymous

Absolutely brilliant and one of the best organised events I have ever taken part in!!

Sittingbourne Striders were absolutely brilliant. So much support on the route, so super encouraging and friendly before, during and after. Honestly couldn’t recommend this event enough!! Thank you x

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Amanda Harmer

A tough 10miler with amazing marshalling. Well worth the triumphant of finishing it. Stunning location.

Sittingbourne Striders were amazing too.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Peter Davey

Best event locally by some margin.

An all round well organised event, friendly like minded Marshalls and a great atmosphere. Room for improvement if I was being ultra picky:

1) Return of t-shirts, even if it was for an optional premium.

2) The photo ID for number collection seemed OTT for a local event.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Martin Fishwick

Well organised, enjoyable and challenging run

Well organised by a fun and friendly team.
Lots of marshalls all the way along the route to help direct you and also keep you motivated.
It is an undulating course, especially the steep decent and the start and the steep hill back up at the end.
Very enjoyable day

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Adrian MOODY

One of the best 10 milers around.

This was my first outing on the new Sittingbourne 10 course.
Possibly the best race HQ I have seen in Kent. Well organised with plenty of hard surface parking, good toilets and even a posh canteen.
The race was accurately measured, largely on traffic free country lanes, very well marshalled and marked with plenty of enthusiastic support.
Although lumpy, the route is suitable for beginners and more experienced runners alike, but I don’t think it could be described as a potential pb course.
Well done to Sportingevents and Sittingbourne Striders, I recommend that everyone puts this event on your fixture list for 2025.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Alex Horsley

Fab event, well-organised, plenty of goodies at the finish, brilliant marshals. Hilly!

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Jay Browne

Cracking race course with superb race HQ facilities thrown in with lots of friendly Marshalls supporting all the runners needs

Thank you Sittingbourne Striders

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024
Rebecca Lees

One of my favourite local runs

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Brian Louden

Brilliantly organised, friendly Marshalls, loads of hills.

From the email information to the marshalling on the day this was probably the best organised event I have taken part in. My inability to cope with the hills was entirely my fault (lack of training due to recovering from a cold).
Would recommend this to others (and have) but would caution beginners about the elevation gains.
Goodie bag at the end, along with the food and drink at the end - definitely one for the calendar next year.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Oct 2024