BQ -3:23 gets accepted for 2018

How many marathoners in Boston run slower than their qualifying time? Is there data on this?

With the cutoff becoming more stringent, I sense we're on the cusp of a cheating epidemic.

Boston is not that easy of a course. In fact, it is quite difficult. And the hot sun can make it extremely difficult.

Thus it is understandable that many if not most complete the Boston course in a finishing time that is slower than their qualifying time.

So many hobby joggers will cry themselves to sleep tonight!

BAA should end this nonsense, if you can't go sub 2:30 you have no business running a marathon anyway.

chaserofthesteeple wrote:

So many hobby joggers will cry themselves to sleep tonight!

BAA should end this nonsense, if you can't go sub 2:30 you have no business running a marathon anyway.

How is that your call?

also this wrote:

chaserofthesteeple wrote:

So many hobby joggers will cry themselves to sleep tonight!

BAA should end this nonsense, if you can't go sub 2:30 you have no business running a marathon anyway.

How is that your call?

In the old days they started to break up the finish line after two and a half hours.

The Boston standards are already very soft, if you aren't an obese couch potato you get in easily, even Mike Rossi did.

Ahem, exactly the number I said 10 days ago and everyone called me a fake. Good news is that for awhile they were projecting BQ-3:51 so it went down a bit. Lots of applications this year.

chaserofthesteeple wrote:

So many hobby joggers will cry themselves to sleep tonight!

BAA should end this nonsense, if you can't go sub 2:30 you have no business running a marathon anyway.

Not 2:30, but yeah, the qualifying criteria is a joke. Way too easy.

BAA only cares about $$$ anyways, and there are lots of joggers with lots of $$$.

Two words to explain the continued rise in cutoffs:

DOWNHILL MARATHONS

did they end up accepting the cheaters from the Mexico City Marathon?

will they start thinking about leveling the playing field, i.e. now allowing significant downhill courses?

BAA deep mole wrote:

Ahem, exactly the number I said 10 days ago and everyone called me a fake. Good news is that for awhile they were projecting BQ-3:51 so it went down a bit. Lots of applications this year.

Well since you claim to have the insider knowledge, is the BAA ever going to cut down on these ridiculous downhill courses that are specifically set up to produce qualifiers?

jkim579 wrote:

Two words to explain the continued rise in cutoffs:

DOWNHILL MARATHONS

they have always been allowed. Some people have always sought them out.

chaserofthesteeple wrote:

In the old days they started to break up the finish line after two and a half hours.

No, they didn't. In the old days, 2:30 was world class and occasionally a winning time.

chaserofthesteeple wrote:

also this wrote:

How is that your call?

In the old days they started to break up the finish line after two and a half hours.

The Boston standards are already very soft, if you aren't an obese couch potato you get in easily, even Mike Rossi did.

You're thinking of a half-marathon aren't you

chaserofthesteeple wrote:

So many hobby joggers will cry themselves to sleep tonight!

BAA should end this nonsense, if you can't go sub 2:30 you have no business running a marathon anyway.

So Ed Whitlock, if still alive, would be a putz? Just asking.

jkim579 wrote:

Two words to explain the continued rise in cutoffs:

DOWNHILL MARATHONS

Bib mules.

I got this note. So maybe I'm in? Anyone else get this?

We have received your registration submission for the 2018 Boston Marathon. Prior to acceptance, the information which you submitted must be validated against your qualifying performance. While we have held a place for you within next year's field of entrants, the data that you submitted has yet to be fully validated. This could be for a variety of reasons. Your acceptance has not yet been confirmed but no further action is required from you at this time. Given the range of possibilities as to why your acceptance has not yet been confirmed, we are unable to place a timetable on your notification but we are actively working to process all entry submissions.

After we confirm your qualifying performance and the associated data, then you will be accepted into the 2018 Boston Marathon.

While we continue to review submitted entries, we ask that you do not contact the B.A.A. Registration Office unless you are requested to do so by a member of our team. If more information is needed from you, we will be in contact via e-mail. Whether you are ultimately accepted or not, you will receive notification from us by e-mail.

We thank you for your cooperation and patience during registration, and appreciate your interest in running the 2018 Boston Marathon.

Sincerely,

The Boston Athletic Association

They have to verify your time. You're in, unless you lied.

LISTEN, dude.I do not know if you are intentionally trying to be funny, get people's goat or just really attempting to be rude.However, I take offense to a comment like this for several reasons.First, unless you are willing to post your actual marathon times (if you have actually ever run a full one), you should not be saying things like that.Second, the marathon is a battle of wills and everyone has their own reason for one (I do not expect you to comprehend this)Third, someone who actually had a solid focal point on what they did "in the old days" would know that times were slower, on the whole, then, in which case, maybe five people would have finished in 2:30.Plus, Boston has been around since what, 1970? Old days? McGillivray started it and he is still alive. If 1970s is old days to you, then you're just an internet troll or a millennial addict. Neither is much better.Go back to sleep and grow up. No, I am not joking.Mike

chaserofthesteeple wrote:

also this wrote:

How is that your call?

In the old days they started to break up the finish line after two and a half hours.

The Boston standards are already very soft, if you aren't an obese couch potato you get in easily, even Mike Rossi did.

Correction for the running diehards:

Gillivray has been the director since the 70s I believe.

The Boston Marathon has been around longer than I originally thought (I checked)

For you, steeple, my point still stands.