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4.7/ 5

165 reviews
Would you recommend it to others? Yes
How did you rate the scenery? 4/5
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

Gerald Tudor

Brilliant fast half-marathon which had a really buzz about it!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Nicky Green

Great event with a lovely medal, always a good one to kick off race season

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Frances Wishart

Amazing location, great atmosphere, well organised, well supported, best in the South!

2:09 Events do a wonderful job, all sponsor of the event are great, loved the addition of the choir/band this year!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Helen Kumar Atwal

excellent event, great photos, lots of encouragement on the way round, brill atmosphere, nice medal and goodie bag

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Timo Thornton

Another great event day, with great organisation!

My only big issue with the day was the parking - the nearby public car parks (Westmead House, and the old leisure centre car park) have very old machines which take forever to issue a ticket. we queued for 45 minutes to pay for parking at 8.05am, and the queue was just as bad at 8:50. We had no time to use the toilets or warm up. I know that this is not the fault of the race organisers, but perhaps you could make a deal with the council to have free parking for runners at those car parks for the event day, it would help with this issue.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Chris Wilkins

My favourite half marathon

4th consecutive year doing Farnborough half and enjoyed it every time. The course is great, probably the flattest half course locally with lots of changes to scenery to keep things interesting. The only thing that lets its it down is no toilets on the course.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Neil Dermott

Great venue, undulating coarse, friendly and welcoming. Need to sort out toilets, need more urinals. And baggage needs to be organised with proper queueing lines, preferably 3 or 4

Need more urinals, someone to organize the baggage queue

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Adrian Sancroft

Always a good event and one of our favourites- see you next year!

The narrow switch-back confused my GPS - maybe make it wider somehow?

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026

Fantastic event, great atmosphere, well organised, I'd highly recommend for all.

Amazing, positive and supportive volunteers, thanks so much!
My family would just request more coffee vans for spectators. They thought it was great to watch though and fabulous atmosphere.
I'd certainly hope to do again.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Anonymous

Great Race, Great Medal & Goody Bag and FREE Photographs!

The race is a great race. Slightly undulating but flat enough to be a first half marathon. The atmosphere is great, the first 5km whizzed by as you went through the airport. The free photographs is a really nice touch especially for the people trying to add to their collection or capturing a lifetime achievement. Goody Bag and medal were superb. If I had to be critical and I am picking at straws here. I would have more pacers i.e. 1hr 30m, 1hr 40m, 1hr 45m, 1hr 50m, 1hr 55m, 2hr, 2hr 10m and 2hr 20s and I would get the marshals to put a three metre gap in between each wave to get them out of the first corner ok as there was a bit of a bottleneck at the beginning. I would also give water stations at 10km and 15km more support as there was no water available at 1hr 50m pacing group due to the sheer volume of traffic passing through for the ten minutes before. Apart from that, it is a dream first half marathon that people would take a lot away from. Will certainly be booking it next year. Hopefully it will be running gloves and a snood for spring in the goody bag as this years race swag was brilliant. Also, I prefer the new calendar date for the half. Second Sunday of February puts it in between Chichester 10k and Bramley10/20 and by then, people have gotten rid of their winter rust and ready for a PB. I think the third Sunday of January was always a bit early and most people were five minutes off their pace due to the sheer amount of rain that we have in the winter.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Gordon Randall

Great Event

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Nicole Edwards

No food products in the race pack at the end where it stated we would receive food products.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Victoria Rowe

Great event

Unfortunately I had to withdraw due to injury at mile 10. Racing staff were really helpful. Loved the choir at the start as well

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Sally Robson

My favorite race of the year

Fantastic support from marshals and crowds. Very well organized.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
amanda waring

Absolutely love this run, so inclusive, Marshalls are fantastic and the organisation is so good

Always a great goody bag

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
KELLY Rushen

Incredible route throughout, great atmosphere. Organised extremely well!. Definitely one of my now favourites

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Matthew Nicholas

Well organised & great course

I love the start and finish and the course if flat and scenic. Going through the airport is cool as well. Only thing is I was a bit disappointed that the gels were removed from the drinks stations. I thought that was such a nice touch when I ran this race a few years ago. Seriously though it's perfect apart from that.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Shane White

Great event during winter training

Really well organised, great goody bag, great medal, good crowd support. All in all, really enjoyed myself

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026

Really enjoyed the Half Marathon today, we were lucky with the weather.

Well organised ,good turnout and the crowd were enthusiastic, all good.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
Dean Townsend

Very well organised non traffic event

Reviewed using Eventrac, Feb 2026
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