Banja Luka Marathon

Banja Luka Halfmarathon have a nice city track, all urban area, flat track... It's not too crowded, and it have a really nice finish line at old fortress with refreshment and good entertainment

The marathon route along the river Vrbsa is pretty, the other half through the city is interesting. Banja Luka is not the most pretty city but I found the broad treegrown lanes quite attractive, as well as the variability. The organisation was excellent, the route guides were enthousiastic, start and finish were easy accessible.

The worst organization I've ever seen. The route was not marked. The T-shirts in the starter pack were different than those listed on the official website. There were no age categories that were previously listed. Cars driving along the route during the race. No official results.

The event's organization was a total disaster. First, we could not easily find a place to pick up the numbers. During the race, there were no volunteers. The route was not marked well, and some of the participants lost track—even participants from Banja Luka. People are not friendly to racers. I got one sexistic coment that is better for me to stay home and take care about my children instad of "moving ass". I was shocked. Ultimately, they mixed numbers and participants, and we lost without official results.

Rout for the half marathon is excellent, but everything else is terrible.

It was great experience. It is very new marathon, number of participants are limited and it can be said some additional lacking points related organization but scenery, settlers' hospitality and beauty of city is worth for it.

Amatérsky zajištěný první ročník s příslibem zlepšení. Nevyšlo počasí kdy pršelo a teplota 5 st.C. Občerstvení pouze voda v pet lahvích.

I liked the day before too! Although it is a cheap race, the start bag had 2 T-shirts, and there were good programmes, a concert and a Color Run. The race itself was nice too, good route and enough refreshments. At the finish area party again.

Great exprience for my first half marathon. There were perfect weather conditions despite bad weather forecast the day before. I was very pleased to run the first HM in my city with a lot nice people I know. While I'm waiting for offical result my approx time is 1h48min. I am looking forward to next one :)