VLM 2016 Ballot

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Mrs Hamish84 Oct 2015 5:49pm, 4 Oct 2015 1,030 posts	0 Mrs Hamish84 I got in via the ballot and I think myself very very lucky indeed. It is total luck and I was just fortunate. Going to give it my very all, so as not to waste the place. This will be my first marathon.
Cheg Oct 2015 7:23pm, 4 Oct 2015 586 posts	0 Cheg Nice Mrs Hamish. Enjoy it you lucky thing!
DaveG Oct 2015 9:28am, 5 Oct 2015 308 posts	0 DaveG Going back a couple of pages, it's possible to work out the numbers from the start lines. london-marathon.s3.amazonaws.com Last year 1-25k and 55.7k-59k started at blue (28k runners) 25k-29k people started at green (4k runners) 29k-55k started at red (26k runners) Further details show there were 1k championship runners (blue) 2k fast good for age (red) I believe the club runners are in the 1-25k race numbers groups at blue. I've always go in through the ballot and always been red. That suggests there are 24k ballot places. Green numbers seem to be good for age (non-Championship and not 'fast good for age') which suggests 4k. So I think there are 1k championship and 27K places for clubs/charity places. There are about 1500 clubs, I'm guessing with an average of 2 places each would mean about 3k club places (some will be slightly larger, but many will only get 1 place). That would mean around 24k charity places. So my guess is that 24k places go to charity, 24k to the ballot, 3k to clubs and about 5k for performances.
Marvin Oct 2015 10:27am, 5 Oct 2015 29 posts	0 Marvin I think your numbers are basically correct there but you've got the blue and the red the wrong way around. Blue is mainly ballot (plus championship, club and international runners). Red is mainly charity (plus FGFA). Green in mainly GFA (plus record breakers and celebs i.e. more charity).
postie_mark Oct 2015 5:05pm, 5 Oct 2015 2 posts	0 postie_mark Only 3000 places for running clubs out of 36000 that is a shockingly low figure. Surely they should be giving out more places to running clubs who support grass roots 52 weeks of the year. The London Marathon should be encouraging those charity runners to try out their local club after they completed the marathon. I fear that in the next few years they will ditch the club places in order to keep more charities happy. It will be a very sad day if that were to happen.
kstuart Oct 2015 8:31pm, 5 Oct 2015 3,567 posts	0 kstuart yeah my number is def in the blue area being its 4557 i assume the ballot section is reduced down by the appropriate amount of deferals each year too before allocating the rest ie its 24k ballot but if 4k deferals they'd have 20k ballot spots also if it is 24k ballot it kinda sucks to have taken 9 years to get a spot when apart from this year the cap was 140k
FreshStart Oct 2015 4:21pm, 6 Oct 2015 2,392 posts	0 FreshStart This is pretty interesting Running against the odds – The probabilities of the London Marathon ballot statslife.org.uk
Gromit Oct 2015 4:27pm, 6 Oct 2015 546 posts	0 Gromit very interesting read thanks freshstart or rather
Cheg Oct 2015 4:33pm, 6 Oct 2015 598 posts	0 Cheg Thanks Freshstart, gives me something to aspire to. A 17% chance of going 25 years of constant rejection
Stander Oct 2015 4:40pm, 6 Oct 2015 15,325 posts	0 Stander It hardly seems surprising but after months of nothing, my inbox at work if suddenly filling up with e-mails enquiring about our Gold Bond slots. It's almost as if everyone hasn't got a place this year. Again.