Consonata wrote: » I saw that entries from the 2020 Dublin Marathon are being rolled forward to 2021. Will there be any additional spots being allocated for this year or is it unlikely. Just I missed out on entry last time and was rather keen to get a spot this time.
rovers_runner wrote: » I'd say you are looking at a late ballot place for 2022 if there happens to be leftover places or cancellations. 2021 not looking likely now so there will be a rollover of those entries to 2022. Next public ballot will be 2023.
average_runner wrote: » With the amount of over sea marathons now in autumn, spaces will come available.
Ross Runner wrote: » https://youtu.be/fFxrAUAAubI Some may find this helpful.....
ultrapercy wrote: » Its very unlikely it will take place this year.
daz23 wrote: » Why the pessimism towards the marathon going ahead this year. If the governments plan is to have 80% of adults get dose by June then we should be in a good place by the end of October cases should reduce in the summer and with the majority of the adult population are vaccinated I can't see a reason for it not going ahead.
6run28 wrote: » there are major marathons being planned all over Europe for Sept & Oct - London plan on 50,000 runners. Why would Dublin be any different to the rest of Europe ? Current projections look to have everyone vaccinated well before the race.
API wrote: » If 80% of the Irish population is vaccinated by June, I'll personally pay for you to do the marathon.
ger664 wrote: » With new mutations and variants cropping up seriously doubt Public Health will allow mass events regardless of how many are vaccinated. The Brazilian P1 Variant (6 cases)has the UK authorities in a spin trying to locate/identify/capture the 6th person.
SeeMoreBut wrote: » The government saying non essential travel is literally off this year but expecting 20,000 + to squeeze into Merrion Sq is fine. I'd seriously doubt it. Maybe they could go for Spring next year
ultrapercy wrote: » Dublin is different to london in almoat every way imaginable. Budget, sponsorship and full time staff to name a few. I doubt London will go ahead in the 50k format but the UK plan is a help at present Ireland has no mapped out route to freedom so Dublin will not hapoen.
daz23 wrote: » We can only live in hope, the way it's going I doubt they'll meet this target, but allowing them until Aug/Sept to meet that target we should have the critical mass vaccinated for DCM at the end of October. I accept that the public health advice will always advise against public gatherings as this is the safest way to prevent spread of disease. But at some point we are going to have to return to normality. If we follow a similar pattern to last year, when in June we were down to single figure cases per day, if we see the same again this year, and we have a proper track and trace system in place we can track and isolate outbreaks quicker, plus with the addition of the vaccine we can control and suppress any outbreaks going forward. The big issue is with mutations and trying to prevent them from getting into the country and that's why mandatory hotel quarantine on arrival to prevent any new mutations from entering. This might mean the organisers will need to allow deferrals for oversea's runners but that's hopefully something that can be figured out. I can't see why we can't manage 20,000 in merrion square New Zealand managed to have 30,000 in a stadium for a rugby match last October and even more interestedly managed to have 14,000 people compete in the Aukland marathon in November, so it proves that it can be done. I think this is the major difference between the two. the Uk have published their roadmap for a return to normal, while we are still in the dark, which makes it almost impossible to plan anything at the moment. Dublin was cancelled May 19th last year, it's fair to say if the government don't release any sort of plan when the current lockdown is due to be reviewed in April than you can almost guarantee there will be no marathon. If they somehow manage to get their act together and come up with any sort of plan on how they plan to control covid, then the DCM team have something to work off, and maybe we can have some hope of it going ahead(I have just realised that any hope of the marathon going ahead depends on the current government getting their act together:(:() Listen I know a lot this is way off topic, but we have little else to talk about until we know if we have the go ahead or not, hopefully soon we will be back talking about training plans for the marathon training gear, and I'll even take talk of injuries and niggles we are all suffering:D:D
ultrapercy wrote: » ok so you kew quite well, better than myself it appears, that Dublin Marathon had little chance of going ahead this year. You wanted to make a political point disguised as an athletics discussion. There are other pages on boards.ie for that and if you insist on bringing it up on here at least do it with honesty and a bit of backbone.
6run28 wrote: » The vacination rollout plan is pretty clear - 60% will be fully vaccinated by end of June and all adults by end September. Marathons of a similar size are being organised across the EU. Hopefully they don't rush to cancel.
Zebra3 wrote: » And the vaccination targets are being missed, and as already pointed out there is no plan when to reopen.
chris85 wrote: » Would be very interesting to see if they consider the potential for moving this to the Spring. Would have to think they have an excellent chance to do this in March/April next year. Foreign travel will still be somewhat limited by then so unlikely to to compete so much with other marathon events abroad. They would certainly sell it out would think. Obviously if it is safe to do so.
chris85 wrote: » They would certainly sell it out would think. Obviously if it is safe to do so.
Dudda wrote: » It's already sold out I thought. They have our money from late 2019 for the 2020 one which got cancelled. Whenever they have it they can't really sell more tickets.
