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May 2015
11:12am, 5 May 2015
First-time poster!!
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Hornetsman
Just over 354000, so even more difficult than previous years to get a ballot place.
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May 2015
11:18am, 5 May 2015
2,934 posts
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longboat
and it is only Tuesday - it will be interesting to see how far this goes. It is great to make the sport accessible, but does this really help in it this way?
From my perspective, I was too late to get into the ballot for the last 2 years, shrugged and moved on. I was unsuccessful in the ballot for 4 years before that, so fully aware of the odds! On this basis, it becomes a real lottery!
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May 2015
11:51am, 5 May 2015
9,216 posts
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Wriggling Snake
It is a lottery, a money making lottery!!!
Still thinking about it.
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May 2015
11:54am, 5 May 2015
10,734 posts
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paul a
Hardly money making, one of the cheapest entry fees on the marathon circuit.
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May 2015
12:04pm, 5 May 2015
844 posts
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Scott S
Considering they much be sending out 1000s of rejection mags (mostly to people who didn't donate anything), they can't be cheap to print (even with heavy sponsorship paying for most if not all of them)
NY charges $11 as an admin fee just to enter the ballot so they're pulling in say $2m from ballot entries before they even charge the $325 / £220 or whatever it is to successful applicants.
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May 2015
1:04pm, 5 May 2015
852 posts
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Surrey Phil
Most of my races are not for charity however, I do like to put on a charity vest for London. I have a few charities that I support - small ones who have helped my family when our daughter was seriously ill after she was born. So, it's a way of giving them something back.
It's a pity that there is a monopoly of charities who completely dominate the golden bond places and that all smaller charities can hope for is a silver bond place (one every five years) or that someone runs for them having got in through the ballot.
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May 2015
2:54pm, 5 May 2015
754 posts
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Nelski
363977
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May 2015
3:03pm, 5 May 2015
118 posts
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sinj999
I just entered my Mrs...... 
365757
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May 2015
3:57pm, 5 May 2015
8,031 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
352925, that was at lunchtime
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May 2015
5:27pm, 5 May 2015
3,519 posts
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kstuart
I always thought the ballot entry system had around 14-16k spots in total as bare in mind there are a lot of charity spots and then there are a chunk of faster elites and GFAers as well as defered people from previous year too.
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