Phase 1 of the Flora London Marathon 2009 online entry ballot has now closed

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

A fire extinguisher or two handed out to the volunteers would soon put an end to the smoking.

Re the walkers, this is a bit tricky in really crowded events like FLM, but in one of the bigger fun runs here they came up with the great idea of marshalling walkers on to the footpaths (pavements in some parts of the world), leaving the road clear for the runners. Works very well, though of course we're not talking about crowds of 35,000... not that it really helps in the case of walkers taking out a runner's entry, but here we have another simple solution ... we just shoot them.


[SIZE="1"](Dead walker being carted off after entering race as a runner.)[/SIZE]