I know someone who ran 43 seconds below their age group qualifying time and they're saying they qualified for Boston. Obviously they won't get in, though.
I know someone who ran 43 seconds below their age group qualifying time and they're saying they qualified for Boston. Obviously they won't get in, though.
You are a Boston qualifier if you qualify for Boston based on time. If you don't get into the race then you didn't qualify.
Are you an Olympian if you get first place at the trials but don't go cause you fail da drug test? 🤔
It can just come down to how something is said. He did not qualify for Boston, if he did not run fast enough to get into the race, but he did meet the standard set to apply to run. Marathons often will list someone's result that is below the standard as BQ. So thee seems to be a need for a new term. Maybe BQA, Bq, BQS...I let someone better at this come up with a term
Who even cares?
I used to qualify by 40 minutes and I was a nobody.
I don’t know why this is always a benchmark of pride for Marathon runners.
You can be a Boston qualiflier by giving donations.
If they don't make the cutoff then they missed qualification and can't make that claim. They can try and convince others but deep down the truth will eat at them.
I fall in the who cares crowd. 99.99999% of people don’t know what the Boston marathon is. And even less know there’s a qualifying time. They all think it’s pay to race like the Turkey trot. Let him say he’s a Boston Marathon qualifier to feel better about his sad, miserable life.
I would say that Boston is the one marathon people seem to know & that a lot of people know you have to qualify or run fast to get in.
I think you're a qualifier if you run under the time. The race start can't handle more people. That's not your fault. We don't need to put anybody down in that situation. The Boston Marathon time is a great one for almost everyone to aim for who is getting to be a serious runner.
Maybe some of the BQ minus 20 minute types are actually a small but loud minority on how we should think about things. Don't forget where you came from or the bad races you might have had. Everyone is different. Everybody comes to the sport for different reasons. The BQ is iconic and will continue to be for a lot of people out there.
Marathons and those who track them will officially point out what percentage of their runners BQ'd, and this is defined who outran the official pre-cutoff threshold time.
It's worth noting the cutoff is buoyed in part by cheaters who cut their courses or have a bib mule run for them so they can post a BQ time they otherwise couldn't run. It's why Derek Murphy started doing what he does in the first place. If BAA gave a crap about disqualifying cheats from registering, the cutoff would be closer to their age thresholds because there would be fewer qualifying entries accepted.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
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