You understand that is the answer for us simple folks.
Cornell, while a weak ivy, is still considered ivy and they expect a life of privilege and work their connected contacts. They were expecting him just to make a call and get them in and compt.
Donations made to schools are not bribery. I was x2 legacy at my Ivy and my parents and grandparents had donated a decent amount, but I also had a great profile
Here you can sort of buy your way into anything too. I have noticed some of these Supporters Club members can be rude and break forum rules carte blanche at times. Money talks for sure.
Here you can sort of buy your way into anything too. I have noticed some of these Supporters Club members can be rude and break forum rules carte blanche at times. Money talks for sure.
supporter's club members should have everything their mind is powerful enough to dream of. they are the lifeblood of letsrun.com.
I just got a text from two ex runners of mine. Like many men as they get north of 35, they are getting a little restless with life.. Everything new that there is to experience has almost been experienced and and putting food on the table isn't a challenge. Rather than have a midlife crisis and cheat on their spouses or blow $50k gambling, as they near middle age, they've decided it would be a good idea to run the NYC marathon, as they've never done that.
They've just texted me and asked if I could get them in.
Rather than try to pull strings, I thought I'd open it up to the forum. How hard is it to get into NYC? Can you get in via a charity or something or is it actually sold out?
Many thanks for your suggestions.
Hmmmm, This sounds like one of those "asking for a friend" things, get press passes and sneak up to the line and start running.
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Rojo sees the LRC community as his little minions who are good enough to do the research work. Just like he is crowd sourcing his camera work for track meets.
I just got a text from two ex runners of mine. Like many men as they get north of 35, they are getting a little restless with life.. Everything new that there is to experience has almost been experienced and and putting food on the table isn't a challenge.
So they want to do the NYC marathon because they are boring and ungrateful? There are literally thousands of activities that would be more novel than running a marathon for a former collegiate distance runner.
Also, typical Ivy League entitlement - they want to get in THIS YEAR because they decided to do it on a whim. Wait in line like us state school schmucks!
I hope everyone on this forum who is criticizing trying to have your friends help you only ever gets a job by applying through a job board, with their resume and cover letter.
That’s a bad bet. Over half my poor quality D1 team was sub 1:25 at 30. A few that were born distance and just can’t not run but several with <20mpw and good genes.
What's weak about it? Instead of wasting 20 minutes of my time to try to figure it out at 12 midnight while I watched basketball, I thought I'd ask the forum. I'm stunned that people are outraged that a couple of NYers thought there might be a way to get into the marathon even though the registration period has pased. In NY, you can generally buy your way into anything.
And it looks like that's the case here. All they have to do is fund-raise like 3.5 k? Is that right?
In the past for some marathons, we've had some of these chariteis at major city marathons contact us as they haven't had enough runners.
Stop calling rojo weak. Just because neither he nor his twin can do a single pullup? Why should he waste 20 minutes of his valuable nap and TV watching time to do work, as he thought that he would get someone else to do his work as he is seriously opposed to doing work and he don't want to learn how to google or learn nothing else neither as he is busy with the naps and whatnot and as he is outraged that you all think it is wrong to bribe your way into things like marathons and schools as it is a family and circle tradition to do lots of bribing instead of doing the actual work.
The easiest way is to run a half marathon on a US ATF certified course in less than 1:23, that gets you into one of their races, register for the New York City, half marathon, or the Staten Island half marathon. I did the New York City half. Break 1:23 in that race and that gets you priority into the New York City Marathon.
I am an old fat guy that didn’t run in college and didn’t start running anything seriously until I was 39 and I did it. If these are ex Cornell runners, they should be able to get in by qualifying times. I think the half marathon time is a bit easier than the marathon qualifying times. By the way, they can do a Google search on the NYC qualifying times— easily explained on their website.