In reply to Chris the Tall:
Yeah, I saw those with tickets attached to them on the way past
I didn't so much mean that as the fact that the starting groups were seemingly completely random rather than being based on your expected time (if you weren't in the elites group). A friend (who sometimes posts here) was a bit hacked off about this as he had to do a lot of overtaking at the start when if he'd been in the right place he wouldn't have had to. There was also a bit of a disconnect between different marshalls - some were letting people move forward, some weren't (and were being quite surly about it). Didn't affect me (I started, by random fortune rather than much else, in about the right place) but it will have annoyed many.
As for the bogs and parking etc, we headed in very early (we arrived about 7:40), parked in the station car park (which seemed to stay quite quiet) and had a cup of tea in the station cafe before using the station bogs. 20p well spent I think
Post edited at 22:07