Does anyone else think that Charity places in races are now conditonal on raising a lot of money. For example, I was sent details about a charity place for London Marathon - and they were asking for a minimum of 1,650 POUNDS - I would find that very hard to do. Surely charities should be grateful for ANY amount you can raise. Discuss.
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Loads on this in the london marathon thread, heavy reading tho
I personally would not run for a charity that expected me to raise that amount of money. I've been lucky enough to get places for London marathon allowing me the option to run for a charity or not. I would not run for a charity for a LFM place. But I accept others do!
The inequities of this are discussed at great length in the FLM forum, under the innocuous sounding title "An answer from FLM themselves".
Neil
When it comes down to it, no-one forces anyone to take a Gold Bond place but in an event like FLM, so many people want to do it that the charities can almost guarantee being able to get people to raise whatever amount they ask.