Am I a POS if I join the masses and run London with no entry? (Hear me out)

If you care about the sport and the race, as it is apparent you do, please don't be an a#$hole and bandit.

I was actually living in Boston in 2013 and thought of running that race without registering. Thank goodness I did not. I have not thought of running a race since then without registering.

Get back in shape and qualify and pay to run next year.

Another way of being fair might be for them to publish their rules well ahead of time and not force anyone to run if they disagree with them. Then members of the UK's intelligentsia (that's you, apparently) can make an informed, reality-based decision and not whine about all the reasons that they're an exception that deserves to run it for free. It turns out that there are alternatives to cheating if you can be bothered exploring them.

Furnish me with them all then please?

Noting about working at the expo getting you entry.

Like I said, their greed, not my problem

5 hour cutoff, there, every runner gets a place

At the moment they're discriminating against

Anyone not sub 2:55 (probably 97%)

All the 3- 430 lot who can't get a place as its a hiking event

are you a sh*tty AI bot or just a slow (in more ways than one) person?

No? Are you?

I know it's a charity event, but it should be accessible.

Starting the thread, you asked, “Am I a POS if …”

Let’s remove the “if” for a moment.

The way this discussion has gone, you’re not painting a pretty picture in terms of getting the answer you want.

You might want to take care of that, then finish your injury comeback, then run a marathon faster.

You asked the question, here's the answer: You are a POS

OK, hear me out- normally I would say that you are a POS BUT- I have an acquaintance who got into Chicago through the lottery.

It will be her 5th marathon. She WILL not train for it. She'll run once or twice a week, 2 miles, maybe do a 6 or 7 miler then get to the race and walk for 26 miles then sprint at the end and talk about how she has such a good kick at the end of a marathon.

Meanwhile, people who train hard can't run because they didn't get in through the lottery.

I get it- she pays her money and it's up to the race to decide who gets in and how. But, really, for the sake of training for and actually racing a marathon at the best of one's ability should, IMHO, get into the race over someone who's going to put in no effort.

Another person with a PB from 1986 who doesn't run anymore

About right

A PB you would sell the house for but will never see you slow ass MF'r

Are you not good enough to run a good for age time

If not why should you get special treatment.

AgeMenWomen18-39
sub 2:55:00
sub 3:40:00
40-44
sub 3:00:00
sub 3:45:00
45-49
sub 3:05:00
sub 3:48:00
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Good for age entry

Good for age entry

Open link

You’re making a great case for her not doing that. You can make a case on general principle that races should at least discourage that from entrants and even try to find ways to thwart it (the former possibly being financially unappealing, the latter being impractical generally).

What I don’t see in your post is a clear demonstration of how two wrongs make a right.

OP, your way of thinking is the reason that everyday people worked the gas chambers in Auschwitz and said to themselves, “Well, there’s not much I can do about it, right.”

Make the right decision. Be a good person.

Oh an antisemitism metaphor or here. How surprising

The rules don't include anything about working at the expo, as you note. That 'someone on the internet' says you can get an entry that way is perhaps not the gem you think it is.

"Like I said, their greed, not my problem." Similarly, don't let your greed be their problem.

It's clearly not possible to allow everyone to run who wants to. As has been explained to you, if the cutoff was 5 hrs, but the number of entries remains the same as now, there would be many more runners in a smaller area of the course. The effect on the front of the race of allowing more slower runners at the back is minimal.

There will be charity places available if you really wanted to enter legitimately - it might be a bit of a hassle, but definitely an option. You're acting as if running the London Marathon is some kind of fundamental human right and it doesn't seem like you're getting much sympathy.

If I could do it all again I'd still rather have played football at a decent level and got injured

Running is wholly forgettable

I didn't read that as anti-semitic. Are you sure? It's talking about everyday (by implication non-Jewish) workers going along with the (horrific) status quo, not prisoners.

Sorry, I just think the holocaust is used today as an excuse for perpetuating killing overseas

Long time ago now

just do it....no one will know, no one will care. God will probably hate you, but he gets over it as long as you love Jesus. Just go run it and stop being a panzy.