Fantastic event with great ambiance and atmosphere in the beautiful world class city of Brussels in Belgium. I found this year to be pretty tough due to high temperatures touching the 30 °C, quite remarkable for the this time of the year in Europe. Overall a very well organized event and great efforts again and again from all the people involved including the countless volunteers along and around the course track. A few tips on improvement though... - Parking area at Kraainem is (one of the two parking areas listed on the official site) very limited (200 parking places max.) and not suited for all the traffic heading to the event. Cars full of people heading for the event were cruising the parking area for nothing, not a place left to park. Very annoying for all the attendees. - At the Kraainem metro station there was a line of at least +100 people queuing for the 1-2 available ticket machines before they could get on the metro to the event. (in the end the metro gates were opened so everybody could get in for free but this was very annoying and stressing for all the people). Simple solutions to avoid this from now on: organize more ticket machines or shuttle buses or free entrance to the metro. Till next year! :D
Partez à la rencontre de René Pairon, doyen des 20 km de Bruxelles ! Á 90 ans, il prendra le départ pour la 40 édition de cette course incontournable ! www.partenamut.be/fr/blog-sante-et-bien-etre/rencontre-rene-pairon
Magnifique souvenir.... une émotion intense à l arrivée, j ai tellement hâte de revivre ces moments ....
Fantastic event with great ambiance and atmosphere in the beautiful world class city of Brussels in Belgium.
I found this year to be pretty tough due to high temperatures touching the 30 °C, quite remarkable for the this time of the year in Europe.
Overall a very well organized event and great efforts again and again from all the people involved including the countless volunteers along and around the course track.
A few tips on improvement though...
- Parking area at Kraainem is (one of the two parking areas listed on the official site) very limited (200 parking places max.) and not suited for all the traffic heading to the event.
Cars full of people heading for the event were cruising the parking area for nothing, not a place left to park. Very annoying for all the attendees.
- At the Kraainem metro station there was a line of at least +100 people queuing for the 1-2 available ticket machines before they could get on the metro to the event. (in the end the metro gates were opened so everybody could get in for free but this was very annoying and stressing for all the people). Simple solutions to avoid this from now on: organize more ticket machines or shuttle buses or free entrance to the metro.
Till next year! :D
Partez à la rencontre de René Pairon, doyen des 20 km de Bruxelles ! Á 90 ans, il prendra le départ pour la 40 édition de cette course incontournable !
www.partenamut.be/fr/blog-sante-et-bien-etre/rencontre-rene-pairon