London Marathon 2020

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Spideog Oct 2020 11:37am, 15 Oct 2020 760 posts	0 Spideog A "real" race is a different matter though and there is ways of actually showing that you completed or not. You have paid for an entirely different type of service, the race is incurring an entirely different set of costs. The reward of a medal for running a virtual marathon using an app is more akin to the likes of virtual loot boxes in mobile gaming, which have now been classed as gambling and I think banned. It's not quite that, but the reliability of the app is closer to gambling than the ways that races have of determining who actually covered the distance in normal times.
Fragile Do Not Bend Oct 2020 11:48am, 15 Oct 2020 6,980 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend Ah ok, I misread as I thought you were saying entrants would be entitled to the medal and tee regardless of whether they completed - even if they weren’t claiming to have completed it. I get the point that VLM might decide to send them out to everyone to save hassle.
Spideog Oct 2020 12:03pm, 15 Oct 2020 762 posts	0 Spideog Yep, not that they are entitled to one, just the effort in figuring out who did or didn't run against the inevitable bad publicity when they don't send one out to some poor soul who was running in memory of something and now their life is ruined because of the lack of a tshirt really isn't worth it. So just send to all and hope it never has to be done again.
Totriornottotri Oct 2020 1:51pm, 15 Oct 2020 1,078 posts	0 Totriornottotri Still waiting for pay day (I mean medal) to arrive!
EvilPixie Oct 2020 1:52pm, 15 Oct 2020 19,411 posts	0 EvilPixie Just realised that the new tee (when I finally get it) will look amazing with my new jacket sunglasses
flanker Oct 2020 2:04pm, 15 Oct 2020 19,493 posts	0 flanker LMH - any joy selling the medal? If mine ever arrives I'd happily swap it for a few hundred quid!
Little Miss Happy Oct 2020 2:07pm, 15 Oct 2020 3,635 posts	0 Little Miss Happy Flanker - £100 buy it now gone in less than 24 hours.
chunkywizard Oct 2020 2:12pm, 15 Oct 2020 10,240 posts	0 chunkywizard Unbelievable! I'm going to keep mine and hang it with my collection but I wish I had the foresight to log a few more marathons!
flanker Oct 2020 5:04pm, 15 Oct 2020 19,495 posts	0 flanker Wow! I might be cheeky and stick it on something daft like 250. And if that goes dig out all my other London medals! I suppose there must be medal collectors out there who want them, but it'd have been cheaper to pay someone to walk it for them!
Fragile Do Not Bend Oct 2020 5:06pm, 15 Oct 2020 6,984 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend Hmm, not convinced. runnersworld.com