Chicago marathon qualifying standards are now way faster than Boston's

I was under the impression that their lottery is much easier to get in. Is that not correct?

Can mattchoi get in?

I suspect you don't know the meaning of the word literally.

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No American city has more murders than Chicago.

Considering Boston cut 5+ minutes last year, they are pretty similar.

Many were age cheats, and in some cases parents held them back a year or transferred senior home to gain an athletic advantage.

You should consider actually reading the source you cite. Chicago is not on the list of the top 50. Only 4 of the top 50 cities are not in America.

Reading is fundamental for learning knowledge. Try it.

I don't see the issue here. Chicago isn't a qualify only race. Berlin's standard when I ran was sub-2:45. With increased interest to race world marathon majors, I think it makes sense that qualifier times are getting faster. Gives people something to chase/allows fastest runners to enter but still fills a lot of the race through lottery. NYC is 2:53 for the fastest men's AG. Now Chicago is 2:55.

The issue for me is this will not change the race numbers at all; it will only change the demographics of the runners. Chicago will still have 50,000 runners but there will be a smaller percentage of qualifiers and a larger percentage of charity entries. The WMM are moving away from being "competitions" and moving toward being "events;" away from emphasizing finishing times and toward emphasizing just finishing; away from having winners and losers and toward "everyone is a winner."

I feel like it's been that way for a very long time. maybe it'll change, but I think it'd have to be that the U.S. women's sub-elite runners would have to get a lot better as a whole because I don't see them bringing down the times so that they're fair, because that would make it so that there is more men than women, and that wouldn't go over well.

Is that right? I was under the impression that too many people were hitting the old standard so that's why they moved them. Either way, it still gives people who can hit the new standard the option to race. Chicago isn't a qualify only race so they don't even need to do it like this in the first place. I'm not getting only of the sentiments you expressed -- it's a lottery for most people. I don't think they're expanding their charity entries. Dk the point in knocking that. People enter races for different reasons. Idk if I feel too bad for someone who now is just off of the new standards. I don't mean that in a bad way. There's so many great marathons to run & it gives a lot of people a new competitive goal to chase. It might push the people who could run 3:00-3:10 to qualify in 3:15 to chase 2:55.

Oh really? What US city has more homicides than Chicago?

Awesome for the guys, two ways to qualify...more spots for us?