London Marathon 2017

RacoonQueen

I got a password reset back.

Looks like I didn't get in. What a relief.

Murph_D

Has anyone received any confirmation of either success or failure? The theory that successful ballot winners will have a payment attempt accepted now through the link posted above sounds plain barmy to me. :rolleyes:

http://www.runbritain.com/news/london-marathon-ballot-results-go-out-next-week?page=&pagesize=&from=&to=&author=&range=

Everyone who has won a place in the ballot will receive a confirmation letter and magazine through the post. Unsuccessful applicants will receive either a magazine or will be emailed an e-zine.

Applicants who have not received their ballot result are asked to wait until Tuesday 18 October before contacting the London Marathon helpdesk.

Paddy1234

Agreed it's a crazy assumption to make. We don't even know if the link works. I'm waiting till confirmation is official.

RacoonQueen

Stop trying to take my failure away from me guys...

Murph_D

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Stop trying to take my failure away from me guys...

There's always the GFA!

(Next year.)

robinph

The wording is open to interpretation in the magazine, but it could be saying that the payment link doesn't go live until the 18th October and you then have another couple of weeks to pay during. It's a bit ambiguous though, and with a GFA place only in the house so far I can't confirm either way if what the payment link shows means anything or not.

joesoap5

Murph_D wrote: »

Has anyone received any confirmation of either success or failure? The theory that successful ballot winners will have a payment attempt accepted now through the link posted above sounds plain barmy to me. :rolleyes:

http://www.runbritain.com/news/london-marathon-ballot-results-go-out-next-week?page=&pagesize=&from=&to=&author=&range=

Everyone who has won a place in the ballot will receive a confirmation letter and magazine through the post. Unsuccessful applicants will receive either a magazine or will be emailed an e-zine.

Applicants who have not received their ballot result are asked to wait until Tuesday 18 October before contacting the London Marathon helpdesk.

The fact that anyone thinks an IT department is that well organised is what seems barmy to me :pac:

Van.Bosch

Murph_D wrote: »

Has anyone received any confirmation of either success or failure? The theory that successful ballot winners will have a payment attempt accepted now through the link posted above sounds plain barmy to me. :rolleyes:

http://www.runbritain.com/news/london-marathon-ballot-results-go-out-next-week?page=&pagesize=&from=&to=&author=&range=

Everyone who has won a place in the ballot will receive a confirmation letter and magazine through the post. Unsuccessful applicants will receive either a magazine or will be emailed an e-zine.

Applicants who have not received their ballot result are asked to wait until Tuesday 18 October before contacting the London Marathon helpdesk.

yeah maybe, like i said it is just a theory but we will have to wait until next week to know for sure

thomas anderson.

Got this far this morning

tang1

thomas anderson. wrote: »

Got this far this morning

Did they accept your details though after you entered them?

robinph

tang1 wrote: »

Did they accept your details though after you entered them?

Had that screen just come up for me and got excited, it still doesn't work with an attempt to log into the next screen though. Will just have to carry on waiting for the postie I guess.

Firedance

Yer all bonkers, wait for the official email before you start drowning your sorrows!!

thomas anderson.

tang1 wrote: »

Did they accept your details though after you entered them?

No, I thought it was working off my cookies. But I cleared them and got the same screen so i am assuming this is the new landing page for entry.

Still cant find me on the system so I'm assuming that I didn't get in either.

Was getting all excited

average_runner

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I got a password reset back.

Looks like I didn't get in. What a relief.

Think it was a relief for me also.

Donore 5k next big target.

thomas anderson.

Firedance wrote: »

Yer all bonkers, wait for the official email before you start drowning your sorrows!!

But the bottle is just there and the glass is already in my hand

Singer

Maybe I need to increase how frequent I'm checking my email today for the notification to show up...

tang1

Singer wrote: »

Maybe I need to increase how frequent I'm checking my email today for the notification to show up...

I'm trying that B, doesn't appear to be working!!

RedRunner

My brother, who I live with in the UK (Ahem) tells me there might be a package at home for me (like a t-shirt?) I think that spells defeat for me. Don't they send you a jacket or something if you are unsuccessful and donate your entry fee to charity? No email yet though.

tailgunner

RedRunner wrote: »

My brother, who I live with in the UK (Ahem) tells me there might be a package at home for me (like a t-shirt?) I think that spells defeat for me. Don't they send you a jacket or something if you are unsuccessful and donate your entry fee to charity? No email yet though.

They send a magazine to everyone who got it.

They send a different magazine to some of those who didn't get in, and an e-zine via email to everyone else.

robinph

If you get the top then it's a no unfortunately.

It is generally a very nice top that they send though.

average_runner

robinph wrote: »

If you get the top then it's a no unfortunately.

It is generally a very nice top that they send though.

Only in the UK though?

robinph

average_runner wrote: »

Only in the UK though?

Yep, and only if you donate your entry fee.

thomas anderson.

This has to be the weirdest entry structure of all the big 6

RedRunner

robinph wrote: »

If you get the top then it's a no unfortunately.

It is generally a very nice top that they send though.

Yep, that's what I thought alright. Will find out for sure later but not looking good.

healy1835

I understand the numbers of entries involved are huge, but is it not possible for all the emails to be sent at a specific time? Or am I just pretty ignorant to the processes involved in emailing a quarter of a million people in one go?

rovers_runner

healy1835 wrote: »

I understand the numbers of entries involved are huge, but is it not possible for all the emails to be sent at a specific time? Or am I just pretty ignorant to the processes involved in emailing a quarter of a million people in one go?

If they used a service like mail chimp it could be done from late at night into early morning without much fuss.
Seeing they are sponsored by Virgin Media I'd assume that the ISP problem wouldn't exist here.

So yes they could manage it better but the yes/no, hitting F5 until your keyboard breaks adds to the aura of the event building the panic about getting in, Dublin marathon this year is an example of that.

robinph

thomas anderson. wrote: »

This has to be the weirdest entry structure of all the big 6

But the cheapest.

RedRunner

Well it's confirmed. Not successful:( but I did get a nice new jacket. Just hope it fits now! Best of luck to those who get a place. It's a brilliant event. My one and only trip around the course in 2014 will stay long in the memory.

ooter

The person living in my UK "address" informs me that something arrived from London marathon but it was too big to fit in his letterbox, obviously that's the running top.
Gutted.

RacoonQueen

Has anyone actually received a rejection email yet? Every time my phone buzzes I think that's it - I normally get these lotteries when I'm not actually in a position to do the race though so I'm now expecting to get a place. :rolleyes: