Crazy how much they lowered the time this year. My friend missed out by 12 seconds. Problem is I'm already registered and the plan was to train and race it together. Is there any way I can get out of this without losing $180?
Crazy how much they lowered the time this year. My friend missed out by 12 seconds. Problem is I'm already registered and the plan was to train and race it together. Is there any way I can get out of this without losing $180?
There's no way to get your money back.
Are you just not interested in training for it by yourself? Why couldn't the friend train with you and run a different spring marathon?
Have him write them an email or letter explaining his intent to train with his buddy who did receive entry, that he only missed it be 12 seconds, etc. There's a chance they'll accept him. They don't make as many exceptions anymore, but it's worth a shot. DO IT NOW.
You can also try to find him a sponsor or charity bib for the race.
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How reasonable would the sponsor/charity bib be? We've been getting pumped for training for Boston ever since we qualified in March. He's really bummed
"We"?
Brev wrote:
How reasonable would the sponsor/charity bib be? We've been getting pumped for training for Boston ever since we qualified in March. He's really bummed
Why do you need to race your friend in Boston, Clearly you're already faster, even if it's age adjusted.
We were gonna make a trip out of it and everything. Neither of us expected the standard to drop 2:30!
Not your friend wrote:
"We"?
Brev wrote:How reasonable would the sponsor/charity bib be? We've been getting pumped for training for Boston ever since we qualified in March. He's really bummed
Qualified and had entry accepted are two different things.
Why not just train together and run different races?
Settled already wrote:
Why do you need to race your friend in Boston, Clearly you're already faster, even if it's age adjusted.
This. You should have picked a different race if you didn't plan for the possibility of one of you not making it in.
The BAA should really lower the qualifying marks
Wasn't there a whole thread about some people creatively solved their lack of entry time issue? Maybe you could COPY them?
Brev wrote:
We were gonna make a trip out of it and everything. Neither of us expected the standard to drop 2:30!
so you are talking about qualifying as an elite?
Fenway4ever wrote:
Brev wrote:We were gonna make a trip out of it and everything. Neither of us expected the standard to drop 2:30!
so you are talking about qualifying as an elite?
So, you guys are "together?"
Fenway4ever wrote:
Brev wrote:We were gonna make a trip out of it and everything. Neither of us expected the standard to drop 2:30!
so you are talking about qualifying as an elite?
Are you saying you had to run 2:30:00 or that the time dropped by 2min and 30 seconds? If you ran a 2:30:12 marathon you definitely would have gotten a number in the first corral. You wouldnt be in the "elite" section but the first corral is right after and you could still run together
Charity bibs are easy to get, but you would have to do a little searching to find a group.
Sponsor bibs would cost you next to nothing to get, but be much harder to come by. You'd have to find an "in" with one of the race's sponsors and hope that all their bibs aren't already accounted for.
Brev wrote:
We were gonna make a trip out of it and everything. Neither of us expected the standard to drop 2:30!
Did they change the standards again this year? I thought they made the last standard change about 2 or 3 years ago.
hahahahahahahahahaha
I think he is saying you had to run 2 minutes 28 seconds faster than BQ to be accepted into the race for Boston 2016.
Sucks for both you and your friend