London marathon - would love a spare place if anyone has one!!

RunnerBell · January 2017

Hello,

If anyone has a spare place for the London Marathon then please let me know. Would be eternally grateful - 07929377853.

Annabel

Dave The Iron Ex- Spartan · January 2017

Lol

rodeoflip · January 2017

Good luck. You may still be able to get a place through a charity, otherwise it's not going to happen.

cougie · January 2017

Three posts. That's your entire contribution to the forum.

All asking for entries to races.

Why not just enter like the rest of us do - or are you special ?

tricialitt · January 2017

Annabell- I would be very careful about putting your phone number on a totally public forum like that.

You really can't just ask people to give you their race places- if anyone has a succesful ballot place in London, and doesn't want it , they will almost certainly defer until next year. Ballot places are like gold dust- some people go years waiting for one.

You can still run the London marathon via the charity place route, but will hav eto raise a lot of cash.

Also- most races do not allow transfer of entries- obviously if you try to do a number swap without the blessing of the organisers, the time will be allocated to the wrong person, there are also all sorts of implications for insurance etc. I believe that unofficial swapping of race numbers carries a hefty penalty, in terms of potentially being banned from future race entries.

There are loads of other marathons going on in April/ may- why not enter one of them- but don't keep pinning your hopes on someone else giving you a race place.