American Development Program - Chicago Marathon

After the Wesley Korir incident, they learned not to be dickish about stuff.

Send in your application. They might tell you it's too slow, but you will probably be okay.

Assuming you have done a large marathon before, you should know the bathroom alone makes it worth it. I'd pay another $20 for that privilege.

This is very true.

Corral A port-a-loo lines have been and will be very long in 2018.

I've never been there but I suspect the elite tent has no problem with a lack of loos.

Never fear. JB will donate a his extra toilets for the Chicago Marathon.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-jb-pritzker-illinois-politics-kass-met-0601-20170531-column.html

He will win in November, too. Ultramarthons will be on the interstates leading out of state, not an out and back course.

Are you already registered? Unless you are under the official mark they won’t guarantee your entry in American Development until the application period officially closes around Sept. 1. I’m :30 off the mark and that’s what I was told. If they don’t fill all 300 slots with time qualifiers, then they will let some more folks in. But they added masters’ qualifying times this year, so it may actually fill up.

Chi vet wrote:

Are you already registered? Unless you are under the official mark they won’t guarantee your entry in American Development until the application period officially closes around Sept. 1. I’m :30 off the mark and that’s what I was told. If they don’t fill all 300 slots with time qualifiers, then they will let some more folks in. But they added masters’ qualifying times this year, so it may actually fill up.

This is stupid. Thanks to idiot masters runner like a few people here. Masters arent “development”. They are just old guys (probably on peds) who we never national class. They arent going do anything in the future.

Chi vet wrote:

Are you already registered? Unless you are under the official mark they won’t guarantee your entry in American Development until the application period officially closes around Sept. 1. I’m :30 off the mark and that’s what I was told. If they don’t fill all 300 slots with time qualifiers, then they will let some more folks in. But they added masters’ qualifying times this year, so it may actually fill up.

Thanks... that doesn't sound great. Maybe I can rearrange some stuff and find a half qualifier. You're closer than I am so when they only fill 299 slots by 09/01...

that may be but not having the masters in the American Development corral with the elites might cause somebody to come to the conclusion that the Bank of America Chicago Marathon has a problem with age discrimination.

The old guys up with the elites at the starting line will be great role models for the young bucks.

Michael Madigans Ruin wrote:

Never fear. JB will donate a his extra toilets for the Chicago Marathon.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-jb-pritzker-illinois-politics-kass-met-0601-20170531-column.html

He will win in November, too. Ultramarthons will be on the interstates leading out of state, not an out and back course.

Unfortunately, there will be no bagels, as JB has preemptively raided the athletes's village.

Chi vet wrote:

Are you already registered? Unless you are under the official mark they won’t guarantee your entry in American Development until the application period officially closes around Sept. 1. I’m :30 off the mark and that’s what I was told. If they don’t fill all 300 slots with time qualifiers, then they will let some more folks in. But they added masters’ qualifying times this year, so it may actually fill up.

Follow-on question - I assume that means the entry fee isn't paid until then?

You must pay the entry fee in the Development corral. There will still be lines close to the start but much shorter than in the regular corrals.

I got in in 2015 with a slower than the mandated time (1:11:11 instead of 1:11:00), but I a masters runnner, and the process was different that year than it is now - you emailed them with a request instead of filling out blanks on a form, so you got to tell a bit more of a story.

Thankfully, I'm one of those awful masters runners who are taking up spots from all of the developing studs, so my 1:11:04 this year got me in again.

You submit your application and a credit car number for payment, but your card isn't charged unless you get in. There were something's like 130 slots left when I registered on Tuesday after deciding to pull out of Boston due to injury.

Really Bro wrote:

After the Wesley Korir incident, they learned not to be dickish .

What was the Wesley Korir incident?

Does anyone know how much it will cost to develop a mobile application for a video streaming platform?

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