According to the London Marathon website:
"Due to an overwhelming response Phase 1 of the Flora London Marathon 2009 online entry ballot has now closed. The limit of 80,000 applicants was reached at 10pm on Monday 14 April.
"Phase 2 (the remaining 35,000 places in the online ballot and 5,000 paper ballot entries for runners who are unable to enter online) will open on Monday 21 April at 9am."
That's an amazing level of entries, given for the weekend's race "92,000 people originally applied to run in this year’s race, and approximately 45,791 applications were accepted."
I suspect that a lot of people have been inspired to enter by seeing it on the TV and being able to enter immediately. Maybe a lot just couldn't get hold of Marathon News each year - but it was easy to make it onto their mailing list.
I'll be intrigued to see how many make it to the start line next year.
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