What's better though, Boston https://sportnomad.net/event/boston-marathon or Chicago https://sportnomad.net/event/chicago-marathon ?
What's better though, Boston https://sportnomad.net/event/boston-marathon or Chicago https://sportnomad.net/event/chicago-marathon ?
Runner 1547 wrote:
Didn't they have a 2:45 qualification time for men in the 80ies and 90ies?
If you ask me. 2:30 for men and 2:45 for women. Keep the riff raff out of Boston.
Someone already mentioned it. Then they’d have something like 200, or so, runners total... You wanna enjoy race like that, sign up for Fukuoka, there is a reason it isn’t WMM;)
I understand why Boston have their current system, as explained by previous posters.
I do think that it lacks a bit of the prestige it once did though. I think there's room in the US for a mid sized city marathon that does set stricter qualifying times, no charity runners and maybe a field of 10-15000 runners, like some of the Japanese marathons.
Not crazy fast but maybe 2:45 young men increasing to 3:00 for 50yo, and whatever the equivalent times are for women.
This would be a goal for those who are 'club level' runners for whom BQ is a bit easy
Tryhard wrote:
I understand why Boston have their current system, as explained by previous posters.
I do think that it lacks a bit of the prestige it once did though. I think there's room in the US for a mid sized city marathon that does set stricter qualifying times, no charity runners and maybe a field of 10-15000 runners, like some of the Japanese marathons.
Not crazy fast but maybe 2:45 young men increasing to 3:00 for 50yo, and whatever the equivalent times are for women.
This would be a goal for those who are 'club level' runners for whom BQ is a bit easy
Seriously. "Lacks a bit of the prestige it once did though"? Maybe try looking at the actual facts:
https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/enter/qualify/history-qualifying-timesLooks like the guy in charge agrees with the OP in theory. He mentions downhill marathons, but backs off from changing.
https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a23536601/boston-marathon-qualifying-statistics/
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