Race attendance and advertising

Here’s a question for you:

Lake Stevens 70.3 was adverstised on-line as having a race capacity of 1400. The website says the race is sold out. At the race today, however, it sure didn’t seem like there were 1400 racers. So when the results were posted, I added up all the age group, elite, and clydesdale/athena race starters and came up with 861 total. That’s a big difference from saying a 1400 person race is sold out.

Doesn’t make any sense to me. Anyone have any ideas?

Just because 1400 people didn’t start the race does’t mean it wasn’t sold out…