Sorry to hear your experience Alicat. I went this year for the first time. I volunteered though. Tamoxifem has stuffed up my knees and couldn't walk half that distance at the moment but I wanted to do something to put a bit back so I thought what better than to volunteer . I cut the time tags off runners. Would have been much nicer if it hadn't poured with rain so much of the time, thank goodness for the poncho. So many people said thank you for volunteering, it was lovely, nobody knew I was an "ass-kicker" but that's fine.
Next year I'm determined I'm going to run it, never run anything in my life. But at the very least I will walking it.