Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Only Way is Up...

A new entrant and straight in at number 85 in his first week in the charts is Phil Oakley...well in at 85 on the wait list at least. For those of you old enough to remember, "the only way is up baby" in the words of Yazz.

I sent off my deposit and was given my username and password for the site, allowing me access to the site's forums, my personal details and most importantly my position on the wait list. 

Doing my sums, I know that around 300 people signed through Running Sahara (RS) have gotten the confirmed places and so I need 85 of them to drop off in the next 12-18 months to get a place. My Saviour Steve from the previous post didn't think this would be a problem, but that's nearly a 30% drop out rate. The email you receive says not to worry too much until next year and that's when the list will start to move.

2 weeks later, I was checking out some information on the site and decided to check the wait list, I was up to 72...not bad going I thought to myself. A week later and I was up to 63 and the week after that I was up 10 places to 53, not quite Top of the Pops stuff, but positive at least. I have been at 53 for the last three weeks.

I've also been checking the forum. As you'd expect, the majority of entrants are from the UK, but there seems to be at least 2 other Irish people, both based in Dublin, who have signed up too.

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