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When do we find out if we have an entry after supplying evidence of a "good for age time". Just paranoia setting in that's all!
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You should have recieved a guarenteed entry form soon after you sent off your application. If you received this, and sent off your cheque then you should be receiving your pack shortly. I got mine today.
Gareth
If you haven't even received the entry form yet get in touch with them, best of luck and see you at the green start.
On a slightly different topic how realistic is it to go for a PB on this course? Is it too busy or is it reasonable?
P.S. They cashed my cheque the day they got my purple form and I got my acceptance pack last week. Why do I have a race number over 50 000? Far from elite....
my race number's pretty high too, though i wasn't expecting anything else, really...
maybe just have to get resigned to the enforced warm up...
I'll certainly make sure I am well behind you and out of the way!
Lindi
GFA entrants run from the green start in Blackheath. This is not far from the blue start, but the smallest of the three. Quite civilised really, and it should be possible to get away fairly quickly.
Your high number probably confirms that it is a green start number but, in any event, once you go beyond the elite/championship numbers (roughly 1 - 999), the number doesn't mean very much - certainly nothing to do with expected finish time. I think they allocate numbers in such a way as to get a roughly even flow of people collecting their bags from the baggage lorries at the finish (ie, they don't give numbers close to one another to everyone expected to finish at roughly the same time since, were they to do so, hundreds of people would converge on the same baggage truck at the same time after finishing).
- 1 to 999 Elite/Championship numbers (Blue Start - expected finish time: sub 2:45 men)
- 1000 to approx. 24000: blue start, mass start pens - numbers randomly allocated)
- 24001 to approx. 44000: red start, mass start pens - numbers randomly allocated)
- 44000+: green start, good for age entrants mainly - numbers randomly allocated to start pens).
Now, I may have mis-remembered the broad number bands, and there may be some special categories (eg, the football challenge people, celebs, etc) - but you really shouldn't read too much into your race number.