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smitters
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The ballot is open.
Cue another year of waiting, then reading a disappointing magazine.
Bad luck to you all. 
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iwaters
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Yep, filled it in knowing full well I have knack all chance.
Someone I know entered it twice and got in twice, also entered the ride London ballot and got into that 1st time.
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Tupperware
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| iwaters wrote: |
Someone I know entered it twice and got in twice, also entered the ride London ballot and got into that 1st time. |
They should definitely be playing the lottery!!
My friend had 4 rejections when they stopped the 5 and you're in rule and has entered every year since...nothing!
I wonder if it is truly random or they take location/occupation/?? into consideration.
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GrahamO
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:24 am Post subject: |
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The best way into the Ride London is to apply as an overseas entrant from an overseas address. It costs a little more and your address needs to be verifiable using a foreign credit card but I've got in the last two times I applied, and everyone I know here has also.
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Whisk
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| iwaters wrote: | Yep, filled it in knowing full well I have knack all chance.
Someone I know entered it twice and got in twice, also entered the ride London ballot and got into that 1st time. |
I've got a 100% record on the London Marathon ballot (2002 and 2009)  . Both times I only entered because Mrs W had decided that she was going to enter and it would be "nice" to do it together. Predictably, both times I got in and she didn't, but that was OK because she'd gone off the idea by then anyway 
My RideLondon record isn't so good - I got in last year after 4 consecutive rejections (although I rode it 3 times via the BC club scheme)
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Doonhamer
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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If only there were other marathons .
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Doonhamer wrote: | | If only there were other marathons . |
but but but this is THE marathon. all the others pale into insignificance. possibly. 
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tommy060289
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | but but but this is THE marathon. all the others pale into insignificance. possibly. Wink |
I've done 5x and 3x of them have been London. I still want to go back to London again....
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FatPom
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Threw my hat in the ring
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SGreg
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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I got in first try in 2013!
Entered every year since and nothing 
I have tried again but it's pretty long odds. You have to be in it to win it as they say.
I Noticed there is a 1000 Extra places for those who donate their entry fee. I wonder what the odds are of this is? As I how many people think £35+ is worth a hoody for a race they aren't doing?
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| FatPom wrote: | | Threw my hat in the ring |
Ditto. I hate tarmac marathons but I guess London has to be done at some point. 
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Whisk
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| SGreg wrote: | | I Noticed there is a 1000 Extra places for those who donate their entry fee. I wonder what the odds are of this is? As I how many people think £35+ is worth a hoody for a race they aren't doing? |
Maybe I'm just a Londoner with money to burn, but I assumed that most people treated the entry fee as a sunk cost and donated the fee to charity if they didn't get in
You see a hell of a lot of the RideLondon consolation tops out on the roads around London and Surrey.
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FatPom
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Whisk wrote: | | SGreg wrote: | | I Noticed there is a 1000 Extra places for those who donate their entry fee. I wonder what the odds are of this is? As I how many people think £35+ is worth a hoody for a race they aren't doing? |
Maybe I'm just a Londoner with money to burn, but I assumed that most people treated the entry fee as a sunk cost and donated the fee to charity if they didn't get in
You see a hell of a lot of the RideLondon consolation tops out on the roads around London and Surrey. |
I didn't pay anything today, did I do something wrong?
TBH, I didn't even know it was open, a couple of guys at work were entering and mentioned it.
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mash180
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I did 16 of them before I got fed up with the whole running thing but interestingly I have entered again for the last few years but haven't got in again.
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