Why is qualifying for Boston the equivalent of breaking 4:30 in the mile in minds of average person?
Why is qualifying for Boston the equivalent of breaking 4:30 in the mile in minds of average person?
Why is posting about why qualifying for Boston means so much to the average person such a common occurrence on this forum?
Curious as to why you think the time of 4:30 in the mile holds any meaning whatsoever to the Average Person. If anything, qualifying for Boston holds WAY more importance for the Average Person.
again?!!? wrote:
Why is posting about why qualifying for Boston means so much to the average person such a common occurrence on this forum?
Did you qualify or did you blow up at 20miles and run a 3:02 and get your application rejected ?
This is what the average person thinks
"You need to qualify to run Boston? Wow, you must have to run a pretty good mile time to do that. Like four or six minutes."
This is what the average person thinks wrote:
This is what the average person thinks
"You need to qualify to run Boston? Wow, you must have to run a pretty good mile time to do that. Like four or six minutes."
I know. So lame. I did it in my long runs in college. Oh wait. My long run was only 20miles.... but i swear I know and swear to Jesus Christ I could have walked those last 6miles and still BQ’ed. But now I’m a fat f*ck and don’t run anymore, but I couldn’t care less about what anyone else thinks so there’s that.
It is only thought of that way by egotistical runners.
theJeff wrote:
Curious as to why you think the time of 4:30 in the mile holds any meaning whatsoever to the Average Person. If anything, qualifying for Boston holds WAY more importance for the Average Person.
Because the OP is obviously the infamous the430miler.
the OP is not average wrote:
theJeff wrote:
Curious as to why you think the time of 4:30 in the mile holds any meaning whatsoever to the Average Person. If anything, qualifying for Boston holds WAY more importance for the Average Person.
Because the OP is obviously the infamous the430miler.
Qualifying for BOSTON is probably more important than a sub 4:20. You mad bro?
Hotheaded ncaa bro wrote:
the OP is not average wrote:
Because the OP is obviously the infamous the430miler.
Qualifying for BOSTON is probably more important than a sub 4:20. You mad bro?
Do not be angry that you never broke 420. You barely made it under 430, once. And that was running fence-to-fence in your mom's backyard. Or maybe it was done in her basement.
I ran 4:16 in high school but I never qualified for Boston. Im in my 30s and get stress fractures every time I ramp up the miles
Qualifying for BOSTON is more prestigious wrote:
Why is qualifying for Boston the equivalent of breaking 4:30 in the mile in minds of average person?
I have never heard anyone say that in the past 40 years
Because qualifying for Boston is hard
Qualifying for BOSTON is more prestigious wrote:
Why is qualifying for Boston the equivalent of breaking 4:30 in the mile in minds of average person?
I don't think of myself as average. I think if everyone ran a 4:30 in high school and everyone can qualify for Boston, then they are equivalent.
If you mean the average person is a non-runner, I don’t think the average person knows the difference between 10 minute mile and 4:30 mile. The average person on the street can’t run either. The whole Boston Marathon Qualifying is celebrated so much on social media nowadays, it is seen as a huge thing to nonrunners. Runners constantly post about their marathon training and races. They celebrate when they finally qualify, and their friends praise all their BQ posts. Then BQ’ers post about the application process and getting or unfortunately not getting in the next Boston. Finally, the Boston Marathon weekend consumes the social media feeds, and Boston Marathoners get at least a week or two of love from the marathon posts. Finally, they get back home, and Boston Marathoners practically live in their new Adidas Boston Marathon jackets. It is no wonder the average person thinks so much of BQ. It gets more online press than a sub 4:30 miler ever gets in his life, and it is more impressive to runners than non-runners. People are impressed by it, but they just hear about it relatively so little in comparison to the BQ.
For a talented runner, I'd think qualifying for Boston is a minor accomplishment.
For someone with average talent, I think it's right there in the sweet spot where it can be done with some hard work - making it a worthwhile accomplishment.
I think the whole qualifying thing would be improved if there would be a fair standard (if not across the sexes, at least within each sex separately). For instance, for men you could have a 70% or 67% (or whatever) age-group standard across all ages and if you get in, you're in (no changing the qualifying time later on). Also, not a fan of being able to qualify on courses with a significant downhill...
Makes sense. I mean who cares that Bernie Sanders was fast in high school. Did he qualify for Boston? We thought Paul Ryan qualified for Boston with a 250 marathon time but it turned out to be four hours
BLtheKid wrote:
For a talented runner, I'd think qualifying for Boston is a minor accomplishment.
For someone with average talent, I think it's right there in the sweet spot where it can be done with some hard work - making it a worthwhile accomplishment.
I think the whole qualifying thing would be improved if there would be a fair standard (if not across the sexes, at least within each sex separately). For instance, for men you could have a 70% or 67% (or whatever) age-group standard across all ages and if you get in, you're in (no changing the qualifying time later on). Also, not a fan of being able to qualify on courses with a significant downhill...
How do you define talent??
I don't think the "average person," would think of Boston as being a thing you can qualify for.
the average person would think of Boston as being a town, in either Lincolnshire in the East of England or in Massachusetts in the United States, but I don't think the average person would immediately equate Boston with the marathon at all.
which probably means that no one who has replied to this thread so far is "average," and that's what I shall be thinking about as I go for my run this morning.
cheers.
I seriously think there is just one guy posting all these threads.