{"id":405,"date":"2010-11-28T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T18:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2011-03-04T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:46:38","slug":"no-support-from-london-marathon-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Virgin London Marathon Committee not very supportive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was quite disappointed when I called the London Marathon Committee last Friday. I admit that Friday afternoon might not be the best time to get motivated people on the phone &#8211; but a bit of support would have been nice.<br \/>\nTwo attempts, two different people, not a single answer.<br \/>\nI was asking simple questions like<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where might be a good place along the race where supporters could hand me over a bunch of scrambled cubes and receive my solved ones? <\/li>\n<li>Which part of the track is very crowded so we can avoid these spots for handing over the cubes? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have such information&#8221;&#8230; no motivation in maybe trying to find a solution.<br \/>\nThen I had a little look online and found an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginlondonmarathon.com\/interactive-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">interactive marathon map<\/a> on their official website &#8211; quite handy. And there is a button &#8220;crowd density&#8221; which looks very promising! Unfortunately it is not enabled yet &#8211; but I&#8217;ll keep an eye on that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; pity the London Marathon Committee was not very keen on helping.<br \/>\n<strong>If anyone knows anything about this topic &#8211; please let me know!<\/strong><br \/>\nThanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was quite disappointed when I called the London Marathon Committee last Friday. I admit that Friday afternoon might not be the best time to get motivated people on the phone &#8211; but a bit of support would have been nice. Two attempts, two different people, not a single answer. I was asking simple questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubiksrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}