Question:For those of you that have run the NY City marathon, what are my chances of
finding someone (at the expo or in the city) during the marathon weekend
willing to sell their number? Did you notice any number "scalping" going on
when you were there?
Answer:
This is highly frowned upon by the NYRRC and will get you banned for life if
they find out. They are very strict that those who registered must run, and
noone can run in their place. It confuses things too much for them to allow
numbers to be swapped or sold indepentently.
Is it sure that NY marathon is going to happen this year?
Highly doubt it- unless they change the location. Can't even think about it at
a time like this.
The NY marathon doesn't go into downtown Manahattan...the enter at 54th or
57th street uptown. That's at least 40 blocks away from this disaster area.
That's the physical distance. Mentally it's right there in the ruins.
If we don't have it then we might as well crawl into a hole and give up.
I think they'll go on and have it. All of the events surrounding the
marathon are a good distance from the disastor area, and it almost 2 months
away.
NYC wants to show the world that they are back on their feet again as soon
as possible, and continuing with the marathon is probably a good way to do
that as frivilous as the marathon itself is.
As people have said the race frowns on this sort of thing.
I've run it several times (and will run it this year too)
and have never heard or seen anyone scalping numbers like
you might see scalping tickets for a ballgame or show.
Maybe it happens and people are just more discrete.
Trying to "bandit" the race (also frowned upon, unlike Boston)
is also difficult as the start area through about mile 3 is tightly
controlled.
