Broad Street Run 2013 Lottery Winners Posted Today

If you didn’t see a confirmation email in your inbox yesterday congratulating you on your acceptance into the 2013 Broad Street Run (or if it went to your spam box and you didn’t notice), you can search a database on the race’s website starting today to find out if you made the cut.

According to the website, the searchable database only includes those who were selected: “Those who were not selected in the lottery received an email notification and will not appear in the confirmation search,” it says. Interestingly, this isn’t the process that was outlined earlier on. Back in January when the lottery procedures were announced, the FAQs page explained that “entrants will be selected electronically after the lottery closes, and an alphabetical list of both the accepted and rejected entrants will be posted on our website by 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 19th.” I reached out to race director Jim Marino to find out why they changed their minds on how this would work. I haven’t heard back yet, but I’ll update this post when I do.

There’s also no official word yet as to how many people actually entered the lottery this year, but we have some clues. In a story on Philly.com yesterday, Marino said, “Based on the entries we’ve received, I would say about 80 percent of people who registered are going to get into the race.” So let’s do a little eighth grade math: There will be 40,000 runners on race day (confirmed here), but when you subtract the charity runners and bibs given to sponsors, you’re looking at about 35,000 slots that were filled by the lottery. 35,000 is 80 percent of what, class? Ding ding ding! 43,750. Meaning: Somewhere in the neighborhood of 43,000 people entered the 2013 lottery, give or take.

To be honest, it’s hardly the blowout I imagined, given the chaos of last year’s record-breaking sell out. I suspect that there was some sort of reverse backlash going on here, with many of the people who signed up (or tried to sign up) last year opting to sit this one out, either because they didn’t think they stood a chance of being picked or because they were actively boycotting the lottery altogether. But who knows? Since the odds for selection were so high this year, maybe the real blowout will be for the 2014 race.

Not that we have to worry about that yet, of course. Our first task: training for this year’s race. Lots more on that to come.

Were you accepted into the 2013 Broad Street Run?