La wrote:Interesting. So, if you take the refund, you don't have guaranteed entry for future years. If you choose the guaranteed entry option, then you don't get any money back and have to pay AGAIN for your next race? I guess that would be the same situation if you had deferred your registration.
CinC wrote:La wrote:Interesting. So, if you take the refund, you don't have guaranteed entry for future years. If you choose the guaranteed entry option, then you don't get any money back and have to pay AGAIN for your next race? I guess that would be the same situation if you had deferred your registration.
sounds like it. I'm going to take the refund.
I'm feeling pretty done with NYC.
ian wrote:Seems about as fair as was going to be possible, given the history of the parties involved. I'll be interested to see the numbers on what the runners choose. On one extreme, NYRR might not be in a position to pay out 40,000 refunds, but on the other end, if too many people opt for a 2013 rematch, it will practically squeeze out every other avenue of entry for next year's race.
fe.RMT wrote:I am happy with the resolution. It is similar to what would happen if I had to defer and to me, personally, the guarantee spot is more important to me than the money. Paying again won't put me in the poor house.
turd ferguson wrote:fe.RMT wrote:I am happy with the resolution. It is similar to what would happen if I had to defer and to me, personally, the guarantee spot is more important to me than the money. Paying again won't put me in the poor house.
Agreed completely.
That won't lessen the interest of runners in creating a list of other options, or wanting to pick two of the options. ceileigh wrote:I still have no real opinion as I have no actual resolution. As an ITP entry I have no information. What I can say is it is frustrating to see information for everyone else except ITP's and to be still sitting here with a 'wait until you hear from your ITP' as the only info I have. I highly doubt that NYRR has not made a decision about how they will refund ITP's or how ITP's will be impacted. They have stated what happens for charity runners. So why not resolve the stand for ITP's too and announce it all at once. Regardless I can not do anything except just wait more ... I am hoping to hear from the ITP later today. If nothing else at least a statement of when / if they will have further information.
MARATHON RUNNERS
All 2012 Marathoners may choose one of the following three options:
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Option #1 - Refund. While NYRR has always had a no-refund policy for the Marathon, given these extraordinary circumstances, we are offering runners who were entered in the 2012 Marathon, and were unable to run due to the cancellation¹, the opportunity to obtain a full refund of their 2012 Marathon entry fee (excluding the $11 processing fee); OR
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Option #2 - Guaranteed entry to the ING New York City Marathon for 2013, 2014, or 2015. Entrants in the 2012 Marathon who choose this option will be granted guaranteed entry to the Marathon for the year they choose. Runners will be required to pay all processing and entry fees at the time of application (in the given year), with fees maintained at the same rate as those paid in 2012; OR
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Option #3 - Guaranteed entry to the NYC Half 2013. Entrants in the 2012 Marathon who choose this option will be granted guaranteed entry to the NYC Half 2013, to be run on March 17, 2013. Runners will be required to pay all processing and entry fees at the time of application. Availability will be limited.
¹ Applies to runners entered in the 2012 Marathon who had not cancelled prior to October 24, 2012.
Jogger Barbie wrote:ceileigh wrote:I still have no real opinion as I have no actual resolution. As an ITP entry I have no information. What I can say is it is frustrating to see information for everyone else except ITP's and to be still sitting here with a 'wait until you hear from your ITP' as the only info I have. I highly doubt that NYRR has not made a decision about how they will refund ITP's or how ITP's will be impacted. They have stated what happens for charity runners. So why not resolve the stand for ITP's too and announce it all at once. Regardless I can not do anything except just wait more ... I am hoping to hear from the ITP later today. If nothing else at least a statement of when / if they will have further information.
Hmmm...maybe we're reading this differently?
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL PARTNERS
All international runners who gained entry to the 2012 Marathon as part of a travel package with an official ING New York City Marathon International Travel Partner will be contacted directly by their International Travel Partner representative to facilitate their options.
To me, that sounds like you have the same options, but that they will be coordinated through your Travel Partner rather than directly with NYRR. I'm basing that on the use of the phrase "facilitate their options" rather than something like "find out what their options are". And on the fact that the charity runners have the same options. Obviously I could be wrong...
jonovision_man wrote:Good on them. And good precedent for all of us (who aren't race directors!).
One of the ITP people from the UK has been told the options are the same and if they decide to register for 2012/13/14 they are free to make their own flight/hotel (so do not have to do the ITP arrangement). Other ITP are the same as me. I have heard privately from some other Canadian ITP people who have been told, like me, that until they (we) hear from NYRR we are not sure that the resolution is being extended to ITP runners or not so ... nope I have not made up my mind at all because I have no idea what my options will be ...ceileigh wrote:NYRR has still not contacted ITP's with how the resolution will work so I don't know if I will get an email letting me choose my options, be offered options through the ITP, or just be told what to do
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