Dublin Marathon 2022

Potentially a lot won't turn up on the day, but I've just sat on my entry and not cancelled. Money was written off anyway, if not for being on here I'd probably have forgotten that I'd even entered.

Not sure how many people actually cancel entries normally. Very vocal few on social media who scream about not getting refunds or deferral, but how many actually bother to cancel when they can?

Running clubs may have groups heading over together, but unlikely to be a block booking and not aware of such a system by DCM for doing so. Tour operators might cancel a block, but I never got the impression that it was a significant thing for Dublin compared to London. Was always possible to booked direct for your entry until 2019 and get a place at the last minute with a cheap Ryanair flight, so why bother paying anyone else to do it for you.

I think that numbers from the UK jumped quite a bit with the change to Sunday running, and there was more than a handful easily identifiable as marathon runners on the flights I'd take at the last moment each time from my local airport. With many other ways of getting to Dublin from the UK the numbers could be quite significant.

Absolute numbers of UK runners doing Dublin are probably less than Irish running London, but proportionally I'd expect it to be higher in the UK-Dublin direction.