Help!!
Can anyone advise me how I should apply for next years London marathon. I did this years in 3:11:43 on a good for age place.I have improved a lot since then and hope to get close if not under (by seconds!!)the 3hrs next year. Reading through the application form it appears I should apply for a championship place but I do not belong to a Club and it appears to my reading that i am therefore ineligable. I can't join any local club cos work clashes with club nights etc . I've written to FLM but had no reply and closing date is approaching for godd for age places.Any ideas?
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Write to them by 18TH OCTOBER 2002 with your proof of performance - which must have been achieved in 2001 or 2002, and your age. Once they have checked this if you are accepted they'll send you a guranteed entry form and then you have to pay the standard entry fee.
You need to write to:
Good for Age
Flora London Marathon
PO Box 3460
London
SE1 8YN
All the best
My Guide to Entering the London Marathon.
Looking at your real name, I assume you are a woman. Therefore you are eligable for a championship place. The good news for this is that applications do not close until December 27th.
I would be suprised if you had to be a member of a club to get a championship place - I may be wrong. But if you wanted to start with the elite then you could just pay your membership fees to a club and then do it anyway. Why not contact the London Marathon helpline to check the situation.
By the way, don't apply for a good for age if you are going for a championship place as this invalidates your entry.
If I had the chance to start at the front I would certainly take it!
Gareth
I heard back from FLM ; in order to apply for championship place you MUST be a member of a running club.Looks like it will be a good for age place after all which is probably better as I hope to run with some guys from local club (that sounds daft as I can not commit to joining them on regular basis doesn't it!!)hopefully we will all end up at same start or I can find them amongst the milling masses enroute.
Really really good.
Hope to see you there.
Kathy
just to varify what people have already said about the best for age start. I have started there for the last two years and its great. Your up and running right away, which counts for an awful lot when you are hoping to break 3hrs by seconds. Then theres the other bonus you get to rub shoulders with the VIP runners. (if you like that sort of thing! )Best of luck.