According to findmymarathon, it was this year. 35.7% ran BQ's.
http://findmymarathon.com/race-detail.php?zname=Boston%20Marathon
According to findmymarathon, it was this year. 35.7% ran BQ's.
http://findmymarathon.com/race-detail.php?zname=Boston%20Marathon
I’ll go with 2016.
What had the lowest?
What had the lowest number finishers?
2017?
Perrenials told me this was the worst one they've done. There's also the fact runners are faster in this race than eva b4.
After I finished the LA Marathon I noticed on the results page that everybody's net time was way faster based on 5k splits being impossibly fast. When I went to Marathon guide they had my net time wrong, but when LA Marathon results were updated correctly, marathonguide was still off. I contacted them but never heard back. When I contacted findmymarathon, they re-ran their software and admitted the error and updated. This led to about 3-400 less bqs than reported.
I realize that most people who run Boston have bqs -10, 20, 30 and more, so even if they have bad weather like yesterday, they still hit their BQ. But I am still surprised that according to marathon guide, there were over 9000 bqs yesterday as opposed to 7900 or so the year before . 36.6% yesterday and 30.4 % from 2017.
Seems like another error to me.
Im not a number cruncher but just browsing the 2018 qualifiers to the 2019 qualifiers thus far, looks like big races have significantly higher amount of bqs. Now I am not sure if these bqs are small as in a few seconds or big as in 3+ minutes, but if the results are accurate I thin we could easily see a 5+ cutoff for 2019.
MilesBQ wrote:
After I finished the LA Marathon I noticed on the results page that everybody's net time was way faster based on 5k splits being impossibly fast. When I went to Marathon guide they had my net time wrong, but when LA Marathon results were updated correctly, marathonguide was still off. I contacted them but never heard back. When I contacted findmymarathon, they re-ran their software and admitted the error and updated. This led to about 3-400 less bqs than reported.
I realize that most people who run Boston have bqs -10, 20, 30 and more, so even if they have bad weather like yesterday, they still hit their BQ. But I am still surprised that according to marathon guide, there were over 9000 bqs yesterday as opposed to 7900 or so the year before . 36.6% yesterday and 30.4 % from 2017.
Seems like another error to me.
Im not a number cruncher but just browsing the 2018 qualifiers to the 2019 qualifiers thus far, looks like big races have significantly higher amount of bqs. Now I am not sure if these bqs are small as in a few seconds or big as in 3+ minutes, but if the results are accurate I thin we could easily see a 5+ cutoff for 2019.
Oh yeah. Definitely looking at BQ-5:00 to qualify.
I think the numbers are right for this year’s Boston. Last 2 years were much harder.