Seriously, so many people overqualify in the OTHER brackets that it screws people over who have hit the toughest standard of the sub 3:05. Women overqualifying with a 4:13 when they needed to run a 4:15 isn't the same as a 3:03 /3 :05 ect.
It just ERKS me to know that people who ran 3:03:XX got cut out while women jogging pitiful times got through.
Life ain't fair snowflake
Complaining about 60 y/o women jogging their way to a BQ when 7:00 pace should be jogging for a 30 y/o is pretty entertaining. If you don't like not qualifying, spend less time complaining and more time training.
The Sun wrote:
Life ain't fair snowflake
+1
Slower folks spend more money on jackets and crap...
That's the BAA's main goal.
Is this a troll thread? I seriously f*cking hope so. Any healthy male below 45 should easily be able to run a 3 hour marathon with a bit of commitment to training.
Who are you? Bobby Riggs?
maybe getting an arbitrary BQ shouldnt be your measure of success/self worth /obstensively ranked performance vs your peers/fellow hobby joggers
why not shoot just a little higher [or lower?] OP? Why care?
Get in line with the rest of us that third week of November... and shout "...Gobble, Mother F*cker, Gobble Gobble" [note: this is a variant of the traditional] in the shuttle while you pass that lady in the chute that BQ'd with the weak thon time whereas you were left staring at the reg page with your non-qualifier
Yeah except it's not jogging for someone to run 6:50-7:00 pace.
Less than 1% of everyone who ever runs a marathon runs 3:05 thon - 60% of everyone who ever runs a thon runs a 4:00 thon, so there is a difference BUD.
You can always get faster.
Because it's a money making machine in entry fees.
Slow legs wrote:
Yeah except it's not jogging for someone to run 6:50-7:00 pace.
Less than 1% of everyone who ever runs a marathon runs 3:05 thon - 60% of everyone who ever runs a thon runs a 4:00 thon, so there is a difference BUD.
you realize that your argument makes no sense whatsoever? you'd need to look at the fraction BQ times / all marathon times within age groups. but maybe you're just trolling.
in any case, 3:05 or sub 3 to be on the safe side is a totally reasonable cutoff time.
Those running 2:20's would rather look at girls running 3:30's. If anything, 3:00 should be the minimum cut-off for men under 40, and relaxed for women.
The Sun wrote:
Life ain't fair snowflake
Well, some aspects of life need to be made fairer to establish at least some sort of justice for honest and hard-working human beings.
In this case the Boston Marathon should have a 3 hr 05 min qualifying for everybody regardless of age or sex. There should also be a cut off time of 3hr 05 mins for completing the Boston Marathon in the same sort of way they have the cut off for the Comrades Marathon. It is ridiculous to have Boston’s taxpayers’ money wasted on blocked roads and police forces for several hours each year for runners to finish a marathon while taking selfies of themselves to post on their social media accounts. Let’s introduce some respectable standards and efficiency for a change.
Boston should run the marathon twice. Once on Saturday for sub-3:20 runners and again on Monday for slower than 3:20. They could make twice as much money... and it really is all about the money. The average hobby jogger just wants to check it off their bucket list.
0/10. Been done to death.
#yawn
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it