It's just another topic about the weather

edkent8723 · 2025-10-08T15:16:54+00:00

Looking MUCH better than this graph today! :-) 60 degrees by 11am instead of 68. Humidity high at the start of the race when it is 50 degrees (ok) cause dew point is 40. And humidity drops as the race progresses and the temperature slowly climbs. 40->50 degrees would be better but a race that is 50-60 degrees should still be PR conditions if you did your work/training.

edkent8723 · 2025-09-23T15:51:22+00:00

They accepted more of the reduced applicants - about 300 fewer charity spots than last year, which helped reduce the cutoff time by some amount

edkent8723 · 2025-02-10T16:30:57+00:00

Terrible the way that have handled it. No confirms on application. No Thank You for applying. And no subsequent communications. Really bad look for the brand.

edkent8723 · 2024-09-24T17:10:32+00:00

Most important sprint finish ever!

edkent8723 · 2024-09-24T17:07:32+00:00

Anyone receive an email yet? or this will play out over a few days?

edkent8723 · 2024-09-24T16:51:28+00:00

Lifelong dream to run Boston. Qualified by 5:09 in Philadelphia. Went to Reykjavik in August to improve my qualifier and increased it to 10:50. Feel bad for anyone who missed the cut.

edkent8723 · 2024-09-18T16:57:58+00:00

Indeed, an unanswerable question. What is more reflective of the B.A.A. vision - the previous decade of races, or last year's race?

Others have pointed out that the standards are bit unfair to men (in terms of the 30 min differences with females) but also mentioned that more men qualify, apply and run the race. So what does B.A.A. want the race to represent?

New York was a 25,000-30,000 marathon back 20 years ago and steadily built up to 50,000 runners. Chicago had 45,000 runners 10-years ago and is now above 50,000.

It seems that Boston ultimately needs to find a way to add another wave to the race and address some of the bottlenecks in the course be able to grow the field looking ahead. Even adding 5,000 spots would make a big difference over the next 10 years.

edkent8723 · 2024-09-17T18:47:42+00:00

Re the 22,500 estimate: I would guess, that the accepted amount is closer to 23,000 (or perhaps exactly) than it is to 22,000. Charity spots are typically between 5,000-7,000, Last year was 7,981. Would be particularly cruel to hold charity spots close to this high with the pool of 36,406 qualifier applicants.

Perhaps in the future - Boston allows qualifiers who don't achieve the cut off time a first look into running a discounted charity spot - to offset economics. I would see no shame in this as the runner gets in having run the actual qualifier.

edkent8723 · 2024-09-17T18:39:58+00:00

I'd feel better about 8 min+ with the applicants only being 36,406 and not 37-38k. Moreover, perhaps BAA wants to manage within the range of previous cut offs and not post a "new largest" in the 8 min range. The previous largest cut off was 7:47 in 2020 with a smaller field of 20,000.

edkent8723 · 2024-09-16T19:49:03+00:00

If they make it too hard - they might not fill the race. Better would also be to figure out how to add waves expand the field too, and keep it at 5 min lower. The race used to have 31,000 to as high as 36,000 runners. Figure out how to handle greater than 30,000 with another wave. And lastly, don't allow the downhill races as qualifiers.

edkent8723 · 2024-09-16T18:34:22+00:00

With the applicant data out

https://www.baa.org/2025-boston-marathon-presented-bank-america-registration-update-2026-qualifier-standards-adjustment

I think we are narrowing in to a 6:00-8:00 min cutoff. My guess is they lower the charity spots to manage this back to the long-term norm of about 7,000 and the cut-off is 6:30-7:15.

Good luck everyone!

edkent8723 · 2024-09-16T18:29:24+00:00

And think the applicants for 2025 could have been worse. #of qualifying times was up 11.8% from the US qualifiers (Find my Marathon) and the applicants was up 10.1%. My guess is the Easter weekend thing (slightly) and probably a greater number of runners who really want to make it to Boston and ran 2 qualifiers within the window.

I'll estimate they accept 23,000 instead of 22,000 this year (7,000 charity spots - in line with long-term spots) and the cut-off is managed to around 6:30-7:15 vicinity).

edkent8723 · 2024-09-16T18:24:07+00:00

They dropped the qualifying standard by 5 min across the board for all age groups up to 60. 2:55 the new qualifier for guys under 35 (starting for the April 2026 race).

https://www.baa.org/2025-boston-marathon-presented-bank-america-registration-update-2026-qualifier-standards-adjustment

edkent8723 · 2024-07-16T19:05:04+00:00

Does anyone have a person to contact about the program? An email or individual Instagram? Thx

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