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Boston Marathon organizers today announced adjustments to the qualifying times and registration policies for the 2012 and 2013 Boston Marathons. The marathon will institute a two-week, rolling registration process for 2012, and will tighten the existing time standards — lowering them by five minutes across all age and gender categories — for 2013.
Seriously? I announce that I'm going to work toward a 3:15, and five days later you change the standard to a 3:10?!
And for what it's worth, your new registration system of "if you qualify by more than 20 minutes, you get first dibs" stinks too. You're telling me that I can qualify, register, and then enough people with faster times register after me to bump me out of a spot? That's terrible. Plus, it's even more incentive to run boring, flat courses for the better runners. Run a challenging course, and just make sure I qualify? Nope, gotta run 20 minutes faster - bring on a long flat stretch of interstate!
2 comments:
I am not a "runner" never thought about trying to qualify for Boston, only way I will get to Kona is through the lottery, but I do not agree with there decision of bumping qualifiers for faster qualifiers, then did you really qualify then? I dunno, but yet they will allow the whole cast of the Biggest Loser on as well as any other "celebrity" that wants to run that can not run a quailfying time, but can bump you if someone 5 minutes faster wants to race it.
Bumping qualifiers...???!! WTF.... Either you're in and in in time... Or you are not... What they are doing just sounds like an excuse to move the goalposts to suit.... And you're right... How can you compare so dependent on course, weather etc etc... Bah!... Lucky I'm both too slow and live too far away to want to bother even trying to get in!!
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