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May 2015
8:27pm, 7 May 2015
1,338 posts
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Fizz :-)
There were just under 2k red FGFA numbers allocated, and about 90% of them finished. I think they said about 38,000 people collected their numbers, I guess the 5,000-odd who didn't were injured/ill.
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May 2015
8:37pm, 7 May 2015
8,474 posts
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Bazoaxe
A 10% DNF rate from that population surprises me. This is a group who have at least one, probbaly quite a lot more, decent marathons under their belt already. OK, they may be pushing the training boundaries a bit harder and be carrying niggles, but in general know their body and its limits and so would either not start, reset goals or iflike me just grit teeth and finish as fast as was feasibly possible despite old war wounds flaring up !
A similar DNF stat for Elite , Champs and Club would be interesting
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May 2015
8:41pm, 7 May 2015
10,739 posts
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paul a
Think it is c5000 GFA total.
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May 2015
8:43pm, 7 May 2015
8,475 posts
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Bazoaxe
That must mean that apart from 250 ish celebs and hangers on, all of green are also GFA.
IIRC there wasnt previously a red FGFA and all GFA were on green, but maybenumbers grew and the FGFA was born
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May 2015
8:50pm, 7 May 2015
1,339 posts
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Fizz :-)
I don't think they are DNF, Bazoaxe, but mostly DNS. They allocated almost 44k numbers, but only 38k started, as far as I recall, with 37.5k-ish finishers. I don't think there's a way to tell the DNS from the DNF in the stats, but I will have a look.
There was roughly 10% drop out on green and international, 5% on championship, and 20% on the remainder of blue and red.
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May 2015
9:41pm, 7 May 2015
5 posts
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mjthomas
38581 Red Charity place
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May 2015
11:39am, 15 May 2015
2,316 posts
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FreshStart
So there were apparently 247,069 ballot entries.
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May 2015
12:02pm, 15 May 2015
2,495 posts
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postieboy
So about a 1 in 12.5 chance of success based on 20,000 ballot places. Not good 
I have a guaranteed charity entry for next year as I've just discovered but I'd rather raise money on my terms, not their's.
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May 2015
12:32pm, 15 May 2015
15,275 posts
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Stander
I understand when capped at 120,000 entries it was a 1 in 9 chance
I think you underestimate the number of charity places.
I guess about 1 in 18
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May 2015
12:42pm, 15 May 2015
2,496 posts
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postieboy
More like I over estimated the number of ballot places. Whilst it should be applauded the amount of people who run and the amount of money raised for charity through the VLM, they do push it to the point of harassment imho.
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