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

Other people do the wrong thing, so you should too. Simple as that.

I don’t think you’re trolling. I just think you’re a bad guy

Maybe the RD deserves a heads-up on this illegal plan. The OP provided enough details that they should be easy to catch.

0.75 mile mark eh...

lol and what's a couple of volunteers going to do? Apprehend me.

Good luck. Also illegal.

You've got no answers to anything have you! Pretty embarrassing.

Retired footballers (assuming male and under 35, if you're aiming for 2.55) should have a good enough engine/athletic history to convert to a GFA marathon time with proper training, yes. This is pretty simple stuff for you to not be able to grasp.

Funny you keep bringing up the championship entry, it must be really bothering you. But glad to hear your football career was better than your running... You'll always have that. You won't have run the London Marathon, that's for sure!

I have a small family and would be lucky to raise £50.

£2000 to run 26.2 miles? You must be joking.

Seems elitist.

How about if you run it you don't get another entry for 3 years. That way more people can do it.

Charity fundraising is elitist now too? Good grief.

I agree that a successful ballot entry should preclude you from being able to enter via the ballot again the next year (or two/three, whatever). That feels pretty fair.

Plot twist... the OP is black, or a minority... then he can bandit to his hearts content.

thesun.co.uk

Nine football stars to have completed London Marathon, including Owen & Yorke

https://www.facebook.com/TheSunFootball/

THE LONDON MARATHON takes place on Sunday, with an incredible 100,000 runners set to push themselves to the limit in the annual event. People from all different types of occupations run the race ea???

Open link

Just had a good look at NUMEROUS articles and can't find a single footballer who has run under 2:55

I accept your apology

I'll have run 26.2 miles (0.75 off the course)

and timed via my garmin. That's the London Marathon. Yes I will be collecting a medal. Yes I'll display it.

Sorry, nor sorry

What do you know, you're not fundraising.

Blagged a non-contribution to society place.

Here is the criteria for when it is NOT ethical to bandit.
- The race is on a private course ( track, cross country, etc. )
- The race is for a specific group ( highschool, masters, etc. )
- The race is a championship and you are starting on the exact same starting line as the potential winners ( Olympic marathon trials ).
- The course can not handle more racers ( pretty much only trail races ).
- The race organizer is a individual or small group.

It is always okay to bandit a major marathon, if there is a S&P500 company as a sponsor that is a good test.
If you are 22 or under bandit any road race you want. Its a crime to charge more than 20$ to a kid to race on a public road.

While banditing:
- Do not start at the start line
- Do not take any aid
- Do not finish at the finish line
- Don't run the inside line.

It always amazes me that people are okay with someone pacing another person but not banditing. I know everyone is not okay with pacers, but they are undisputedly worse for a race than a bandit. Atleast a bandit is racing.

I'll be running London this year at an undisclosed pace between 2h30m and 4h30m. If I see someone join the course I'll call them out and flag a security guard to get them booted :) Will be watching.

I think he’s probably trolling. No one could be that elitist and that far from elite.

remember when banditing marathons used to be cool?

what happened?

I'm sure there's plenty of medals stolen each year, unfortunately - you'll just have one of those. Wear it with pride. I think they call that stolen valour in the military? Scummy behaviour to most but hey you do you - we're in a post-shame world, you're just another depressing product of it.

Because - shock horror - running 0.75 off the course... is... not running the course.

Ps. Alexey Smertin, ex Chelsea. Literally just googled it for you. I assume you're some washed up ex non-league defender then? No wonder you're triggered by moderately fast runners. Sorry you're finding it all so frustrating. You just need to work a bit harder.

Hmmm. I'll bite because your posts are consistently entertaining, even if you're trolling. Nobody has suggested that all, or indeed any, footballers have run under 2.55. Just that with the appropriate training, an uninjured 'high level' footballer who can run a 3.25 marathon should be able to get under 2.55.

If you genuinely can't understand why it's bad to cheat then I can't fathom why you're asking for advice on LRF - no amount of reasoning from strangers is going to change your mind. But do keep posting. You sound angry, and it's funny.

So you're trolling. I've been in London, Berlin and Boston.

Boston has a history like no other marathon. Great crowd. Unique.

Berlin is the biggest, the fastest, the ultimate marathon. Great crowd too. If you only run one marathon it should be Berlin.

London was good but a lot of clowns running it, fortunately not too many in my part of the field. Crowds were good but nothing special.

____________________

To the people saying a 3:25 guy should just "train harder" and run sub-3: easier said than done.

Maybe OP lacks talent or he is injury-prone.

Why bother? You can't tell people you ran London, you don't get an official time, if you're caught you'll get banned for life, and if you take a medal you're a scumbag. But in the grand scheme of things, who cares. Also, if you do end up running a GFA time at London, you can't use it.

What was the point of posting here? You whine about how life isn't fair so you are forced to cheat and give your justification, if anyone doesn't buy your sappy story you whine some more and attack them. You whine about more accomplished runners being has been's and then brag about how you are a has been, you whine about slow runners and then whine about how slow you are and why you can't be fast enough to qualify, you whine about how you can't raise money because of Brexit and then brag about how much money you have raised before. Most of us could care less whether you bandit the race, but shameful the way you treat other people here. If you want to brag about your has been football career maybe there is another message board you can find that better suits your interests.