Question about wave assignments in Boston. I thought they were according to time. Are there any other factors? I'm assigned to wave 3. An old teammate got assigned to wave 2 and her fastest marathon is 10 minutes slower than mine. Neither of us are super fast, but it's seems counterproductive to put a slower runner in an earlier wave. She's run Boston a bunch of times. This will be my first. Honestly just curious.
It's generally always been done by time (see 2019 tweet below). Note, get to the start early. There's basically no getting into your assigned wave once security closes entry, and those guys take it seriously.
How early are we talking? My wave is at 10:50. I live 15 minutes from the starting line.
Was your fastest race in this qualifying cycle?
Have they put the waves online yet?
I've only run one marathon and it was 3:26:20. I think I just missed the cutoff for wave 2. I'm wave 3 corral 1. My friend's fastest (ever) was 3:34 in 2019. She's wave 2 corral 8. There's an entry list with wave assignments and BAA athlete's village has our bib number info.
Birkoboy wrote:
Have they put the waves online yet?
Look yourself up on this entry list and it'll show your wave and corral.
That does seem strange,they usually put you in the right time wave.
I got 2/2 as I expected.
Maybe she ran something faster? Boston seeds 1 to 30,000. The cutoffs are by time. There shouldn't be errors like that.
You say she has done multiple Boston's - is it 5 or more? If so the likely explanation is she signed up for the Unicorn club. When you do you get bumped to the next faster wave as one of the perks.
In order to qualify for the Unicorn Club you had to run 10 consecutive.
pretzel man wrote:
In order to qualify for the Unicorn Club you had to run 10 consecutive.
That used to be true but they changed it to 5 a while back. I know because this is my 5th consecutive Boston and I got the invite to become a member.