702 Walk the Talk - disorganised and disappointing

I am absolutely appalled at the total lack of preparation and co-ordination of the 702 Walk the Talk race 20 August 2023.

With there being strict control of T-shirts, one would assume that the Organisers were well aware of the volume of entrants into the race. There was NOT ONE single Marshall directing either traffic or the walkers at all. Besides the ridiculously long queues (2 plus hours) to get into the venue, there was the slightly less frustrating exit queue of an hour. The problem was not the lack of parking, but the lack of Marshalls ensuring the traffic flowed efficiently. Cars were driving 3 deep along the road as exasperated walkers tried to get to the beginning of the walk.

I have never seen cars being allowed to drive on the actual route walkers were walking along. This was not only extremely dangerous, but with every vehicle that passed, huge billows of dust were stirred up for the walkers. Again one would assume the Organisers would have wet the route a little (not drenched it) to reduce the amount of dust.

To add insult to injury, the walk was not even scenic - it was literally walking along dirt roads.

This event was more costly than the majority of other walks/runs with far less value in any form. Surely with the money collected from 22 000 entrants, 702 could have paid for Marshalls (or requested for volunteers). This has cast an extremely poor image on the walk, with thousands of frustrated participants, a lot of whom will most likely not venture to do that again.