I've entered the ballot for next years London Marathon

[Greedo]

What do you reckon my chances of getting a place are.
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a) Eff all
Slim
c) Not a chance
d) More chance of hell freezing over
e) Dream on Greedo

 

[PaulB]

No probs entering the London half-marathon (as I did in 2005). And you know why? I tell you why.

As soon as I'd paid the registration fee, and only then, did I realise where and when the venue was.

Date was a cold freezing, windy, dark February. The venue was an unsheltered, concrete, tarmac wilderness otherwise known as Silverstone.

Course merely consisted of running round the track a few times.

Managed it in 2hrs 5min but it was a drab day.

That's truly disgusting.

As for entering the marathon, the best way to ensure you get to run it is to belong to a club. If you lose out in the ballot, your club will have a number of discretionary places given to them and most (all?) opperate an in-club ballot which is much more in your favour. You just give your rejection slip in with any other club members and they make a much smaller draw. My club normally get six places and last year there were only four rejections so we had two spare.

 

[trio25]

I've entered, as being there on sunday reminded me I want to do it again and I'm thinking I should start building up the rejections!

 

[trio25]

Yes you have to raise about £1500 if you do it that way, it costs the charity £500 so they get £1000 for the charity in the end. It is a way but there is a lot of pressure as you have to raise the money.