Boston Marathon Confirmation

The ghost of Jock Semple leaves a note in your left running shoe on the next full moon.

Waiting on my confirm too. Someone said they applied Monday and heard back by Wednesday afternoon. With every new wave of entries opening up, more people sign up to race...

Holiday Inn Expert wrote: With every new wave of entries opening up, more people sign up to race...

Is that how that works? Wow, you've really made things a lot more clear for me. Thanks.

Signed up monday, got this wednesday...

This is to notify you that your entry into the 119th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 20, 2015 has been accepted, provided that the information you submitted is accurate.

You can verify your acceptance into the field by searching the 119th Boston Marathon Entrants database on the B.A.A. web site. Additionally, a Confirmation of Acceptance card will be mailed to you via US Postal Service mail in October.

Not sure if this means they have or havent yet verified my qualifier but I didnt lie so I'm assuming I'm in. Entrants database page looks like it will update mid-month.

just a few days. folks who signed up this week - and the 5:00 category closes today. will be notified very soon. the −20 folks have alreadyu been notified and the −10 folks are getting their emails already

we should know by Thursday or Friday if all who register next week are accepted. if by some chance it fills next week, we should know by the end of the week or next Monday at the latest.

i got to sign up in the early registration in August and i got my acceptance email Wednesday morning after signing up on Monday night.

I'm glad that you posted, because it gave me a chance to check on the standards before the deadline. I was injured last fall and had to miss my marathon in December, so I don't have a qualifier for Boston, because they only accept marathon times from September 2013 to now. By contrast, New York accepts half marathon qualifiers, and the US trials have accepted half times as well as 10k times as well. I ran a 1:16 half earlier this year just before my 45th birthday, and the M45-49 qualifier is 3:25, which is probably worth about a 1:35 half. My marathon pr is 2:39 from fall 2011 at 42. So, I do not qualify for Boston, while a 3:24:59 guy my age does. That does not make a lot of sense.

I'm hoping to run the same December marathon this year, if I can make it to the starting line for the first time in three years, and it is very likely that if I do, I'll run more than 45 minutes under the qualifying time for Boston 2015/16.

Lots of people get in without a qualifying time. If you get in contact with the correct people you should be able to get an entry. I personally know a non-elite runner who received an entry based upon his half-marathon time.

Thanks butthead. I only meant that the number of people in each qualifying bracket gets bigger. Say 5,000 people are 20 min or more under, well it would make sense that more than 5,000 people would qualify by 10 minutes or less, aka the squeakers. There are less elite runners than there are squeakers. So the fact that they stagger the sign ups is just an annoying method of increasing interest