It’s a really bad system and apart from not being transparent, it’s going to lead to people putting faster than is realistic predicted finishing times down to try to get into an earlier wave. We’ve had a similar level of toxicity around the London Marathon ballot in the UK. The highest number of entries ever and awful comments about not entering the ballot if you can’t run an X hour marathon.
Thanks for pointing that out! I do think that a lot of this behavior *does* stem from mental health issues, which run rampant in the running community, but I hear you and switched the word to one less tied to a specific disorder.
It’s a really bad system and apart from not being transparent, it’s going to lead to people putting faster than is realistic predicted finishing times down to try to get into an earlier wave. We’ve had a similar level of toxicity around the London Marathon ballot in the UK. The highest number of entries ever and awful comments about not entering the ballot if you can’t run an X hour marathon.
Thanks for pointing that out! I do think that a lot of this behavior *does* stem from mental health issues, which run rampant in the running community, but I hear you and switched the word to one less tied to a specific disorder.