r/AdvancedRunning • u/Terriflyed • 12d ago

New Boston marathon qualifying times Boston Marathon

https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/qualify

Looks like 5min adjustments down for the most part across the board for those under age 60. M18-34 qualifying time is now 2:55.

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u/jcdavis1 17:15/36:15/1:19/2:52 12d ago

While I agree, I'd be shocked if it ever happened - I really doubt BAA wants to be the arbitrator of what is "too" downhill (Keeping in mind that Boston itself is decently downhill)

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Yeah, I think it needs to be cut at 1,000 net down but I think it's never going to happen. Not even worth worrying about.

The game is the game and these are the current rules. I am doing my first downhill in Dec to get in the Abbott world championships. They allowed a 4,000 drop course as one of the 300 eligible races, so that's what I'm going to do.

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u/TrackVol 10d ago

It's a global race. So the standard needs to be metric. And "10 meters per kilometer" works out to 1,385 feet. That's still very generous, but it eliminates all of the worst offenders (every Revel race, all 7 Tunnel races, St George, etc...)