I thought back that long ago you were assured of a start after 5 rejections?
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It was 5, then 8, then 10?, then they scrapped it.
oh I hadn’t realised that, bummer 
I’m 2 from 2 with my ballot attempts (2002 and 2009).
Both years I only applied because Mrs W was applying and pressurised me into doing the same. Both years she didn’t get in and had gone off the idea by the time the ballot results came out 
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Mrs W finally got a place for 2011 (deferred to 2012 because of injury) in what I think was one of the last years of the guaranteed entry after 5 rejections.
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I think the numbers stopped working for the guaranteed entry when they switched from a paper entry form to on-line and it became much easier for people to put in a speculative entry. The guaranteed entries would have taken up all of the ballot places
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Rejection for me, can’t grumble though, been entering for the last 17 years, and managed 3 ballot entries and 1 charity place run
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A friend got the rejection top and realised that they’d reused last years stock and just stuck a new logo over the top. Very cheap of them…
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That takes the piss
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What’s a rejection top?
Good to see them using old stock (instead of binning it) but I suspect the price was still high
If you donate your entrance fee if you don’t get in. They send you a top for commiserations.
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Good to reuse but don’t cover up printing. That’s the issue more than anything. So make a good stockpile but only print what you need each year.
I had a massive disappointment because when adidas sponsored the majors they used the same colour and design across ALL races - majors plus key races elsewhere. I bought kit when I did Two Oceans in Cape Town, turned up to London marathon expo 3 weeks later and it was all the same kit
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IM went through a stage of that for a couple of years in Oz. Cheap AF.
It looks like it’s going to be wet and windy for anyone racing on Sunday 
I see the 2023 race is returning to the usual April time slot
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Ooh, ballot must be opening next week then?
I’ll throw my hat into that. Would quite like a spring marathon!
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Absolute crap weather here this arvo but looks to a bit better on the weekend.
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Ballot opens on Sunday.
I have my place for 2023. It’s been my entry since 2019 - deferred to injury and then carried on deferring thanks to Covid.
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Only fifty squid, I might do the same.
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Are there any TT’ers running?
I’m hoping to run it in April 23, have a GFA application in, 5 and a half mins inside the standard.
Good luck to anyone running SundY
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