Participated with my Girlfriend and both of us are only having positive things to say!
Great location, great food, great hospitality and great company with fellow runners.
Have in mind that Sparta (the organizers of CPH Half) have been in a need of adjusting the course this year to accommodate for the field expansion to 30,000 runners. So while they are back at Fælledparken, the setup needed to be different, e.g. separate Start and Finish lines. I am sure that they capture the learnings for the coming years to continue to improve.
The main point of critique is Sparta’s continuously “refusal” of not enforcing strict Wave starts, like in other large running events, where e.g., you know that the Orange wave starts at 10.15 sharp. Based on last years’ timings, we estimated my GF to start around 10.00, but she crossed the start line at 10.19. Surely, this impacts your Warm Up timings, but also makes it a bit difficult for the SAS event to have a good timing of when to leave the venue (Madklubben).
Inputs to SAS for taking the event from Great to Excellent;
- Replace the unisex shirts with gender specific (but great service that you could swap your size at the venue)
- Give the option of choosing between a Singlet and t-shirt (I didn’t run in the shirt since it would have been to uncomfortable for me)
- Have a small meeting point with a few additional light refreshments within the Runners Area (before runners are heading back to Madklubben)
For the ones that where not impressed with the venue (Madklubben), please have in mind that there are not really any other option in that close proximity to the start/finish area. ‘Brasserie Post’ is better, but their seating capacity is only 130 pax (vs. 220 pax), so I guess all of us would like SAS to stay at Madklubben… And a big tent in ‘Fælledparken’ (as many companies do for the DHL relay 5K run) is not even a possibility having logistics and comfort in mind ;-)
Det var perfekta förhållanden.
